Technological and Industrial Change Defined Modern Experience and Society'

'Technological and Industrial Change Defined Modern Experience and Society'

Introduction

The period from 1750 to 1850 was the period of the Industrialization, where observed changes were brought in manufacturing, transportation, agriculture, technology, and mining laying a profound impact on the cultural, economic, and social conditions of that era. The Industrial revolution initiated from the United Kingdom, which then later spread it wings throughout Japan, Northern America, and Western Europe.

A turning point was marked in the history of mankind by the Industrial revolution; where almost every aspect of daily life was influenced in a way or the other. Unprecedented growth was exhibited by the population belonging to average income. Following two centuries after 1800, there was a tenfold increase in the world's average capita income, whereas there was a sixfold increase in the population of the world.

Entrepreneurs of Great Britain were provided with cultural and legal institution that enabled them to initiate the industrial revolution. There were six factors that assisted in fostering the environment, which includes: (1) the stability and peace phase followed the amalgamation of Scotland and England, (2) elimination of trade barriers between Scotland and England, (3) a simple and comprehensive legal system, allowing the creation of joint stock corporations, (4) the rule of law, and (5) capitalism.

During the later end of the 18th century, Great Britain entered the phase of transition from animal based and manual labour economy towards the manufacturing based on machines. The machine based manufacturing began from the textile industries mechanisation, followed by the development in the techniques of making iron, and then increase in the use of refined coal. I notified increased was observed in the trade with the formation of railways, roads, and canals. During the phase of transition from agriculture based to the machine based economy, simultaneously, there was a shift of population from the countryside to cities and towns.

Discussion

Historians Nicholas Crafts and John Clapham of the 20th century argued that the social and economical change process was gradually taken over, where the revolution is pseudonymous term. However, there still exist debate and conflicts pertaining to it. The GDP per capita before the era of industrialization and capitalist economy was stable, where the industrial revolution brought subsequent growth in the per capita. It is agreed by the historians that the era of Industrial revolution is one of the imperative eras in the history of the humanity, ever since domestications of plants and animals. There has been a rapid growth notified in various fields of human life, which was a profound movement towards the life we all humans are leading today, the life of ease, contentment, and amelioration.

Urbanisation and Factories

Industrialization aided in the formation of factory. The first factory formed was in 1721 at Derby of John Lombe's water powered skill mill. Nevertheless, the rise in the formation of factories was notified at peak when cotton spinning was mechanised. The formation of factories are much more responsible for the rise in the development and ...