World history/WHME101/Scientific and industrial revolutions/Industrial revolution

Reading

Read chapter 17 below, pp. 581-624. As you do so, consider the following questions:

• Where and when did the Industrial Revolution originate?

• What impact did new industrial technologies have on peoples in Europe?

• What were some of the key inventions during this period?

• How did transport change?

Hutton Webster, World History, Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., 1921, pp. 581-624.

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