Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was a major turning point in advancements of the United States and Europe. The Industrial Revolution included many inventions of different purposes and complexity. Many of the inventions shape the world around us so much that people do not even realize it. The Industrial Revolution also included the Agricultural Revolution in Europe, which changed the farming methods and increased agriculture. A form of efficient mass transportation was developed during this time to cope with the mass production that industries were processing. There are unions now because of the terrible working conditions that workers had to cope with. The executives were very rich because of the low pay that the laborers were given. There were many advancements and changes in the Industrial Revolution that changed the way people live today.

There were many inventions that dramatically changed the technological advancements in the United States. These

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include: electric power, the printing press, the telegraph and telephone, and the light bulb (mars.acnet.wnec.edu).

Our world would have almost no technology without electricity. It is the building block of everything related to technology. Without electricity, people would have no heat, A/C, and cars could not run. The US would be much different without the printing press. Before it was invented, scholars had to manually write out a book to copy it (mars.acnet.wnec.edu). This made the cost of books high and the number of books low (mars.acnet.wnec.edu).