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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=Mary Baker Eddy|
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+image_desc=A [[Watt steam engine]], the [[steam engine]] that propelled the Industrial Revolution in [[Britain]] and the world|
-text='''[[Mary Baker Eddy|Mary Ann Morse Baker]]''', known as '''Mary Baker Edd''' (July 16, 1821 &ndash; December 3, 1910) was the pioneer of a system of prayer-based healing that led her to found the [http://www.tfccs.org/ Church of Christ, Scientist] in 1879. She was the author of its fundamental doctrinal textbook, ''Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures'', which has sold more than ten million copies. She is also the founder of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, founder of a publishing house, and founder of the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]].''
+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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-Mary Baker Eddy overcame years of ill health and great personal struggle to make an indelible mark on American society. She made her discovery of Christian Science at a time when women could not vote and were generally barred from pulpits, seminaries, and the medical profession.}}