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− | text=''' | + | text=The '''Industrial Revolution''' was a transformation of human life circumstances that occurred in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Britain, the United States, and Western Europe. It was characterized by a complex interplay of changes in [[technology]], [[society]], [[medicine]], [[economy]], [[education]], and [[culture]] in which multiple technological innovations replaced human labor with [[work|mechanical work]], replaced [[vegetable]] sources like [[wood]] with [[mineral]] sources like [[coal]] and [[iron]], freed mechanical power from being tied to a fixed running water source, and supported the injection of [[Capitalism|capitalist]] practices, methods, and principles into what had been an agrarian society. |
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Featured Article: Industrial Revolution
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A Watt steam engine, the steam engine that propelled the Industrial Revolution in Britain and the world