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A Watt steam engine, the steam engine that propelled the Industrial Revolution in Britain and the world

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 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 capitalist practices, methods, and principles into what had been an agrarian society.

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-title=Medicine wheel|
+title=Industrial Revolution|
-image_name=bighorn medicine wheel.jpg|
+image_name=Maquina vapor Watt ETSIIM.jpg|
-image_desc=Medicine Wheel in Bighorn National Forest, Wyoming|
+image_desc=A [[Watt steam engine]], the [[steam engine]] that propelled the Industrial Revolution in [[Britain]] and the world|
-text='''Medicine wheels''', or '''sacred hoops''', are [[stone structure]]s built by certain [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas]] apparently for [[astronomy|astronomical]], [[ritual]], healing, and [[teaching]] purposes. They were constructed by laying stones in a particular pattern on the ground. Most medicine wheels resemble a [[wagon]] [[wheel]], having a center [[cairn]] of stones surrounded by an outer ring of stones, and then "spokes," or lines of rocks, coming out from the cairn.
+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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