The eighteenth century witnessed the arrival of widespread industrialisation in Western Europe. Many countries underwent the gradual transition from a predominantly agrarian society to industrial development on an extensive scale and the introduction of the modern factory system. Great Britain was t...

The first Industrial Revolution was a period of expansion and transformation defined by the change from an agricultural society to an industrial one. It also was time of change and transformation from the use of manual hand tools and hand made items to machine manufactured and mass produced goods i...