The Industrial Revolution

by Darlow Humphreys, Mary Beggs-Humphreys, Hugh Gregor

Between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries Great Britain changed from a mainly agricultural country into a mainly industrial one. Because the change came about so quickly we can indeed describe it as a revolution. This period of a hundred years might well be called 'the age of steam power'. Between them steam, coal and iron transform ed Britain's industry, brought about a revolution in road, rail and sea transport, and led to the rapid...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415759293
• ISBN13: 9780415759298
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"