TO WHAT EXTENT CAN IT BE CLAIMED THAT ENGLAND UNDERWENT AN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN THE YEARS 1750 - 1850 The Industrial Revolution was neither sudden nor swift. It was a long, slow process in which production from hand tools to machines and in which new sources of power such as steam and electricity replaced human and animal power. The Industrial Revolution did not only convert the patterns of work in nations, but completely transformed the way of …showed first 75 words of 2189 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2189 total…quantities of cotton, so therefore needed new inventions and engines that spurred on the coal industry that in turn made the iron trade a success. The dictionary definition of industrial revolution is 'the transformation of Britain and other countries into industrial nations' and as Britain was really the first nation to have become an industrial nation thanks to all the inventors, it underwent a major change and made a giant leap into the industrial revolution.