INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION-

CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES

WHAT IS INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION???

THE PROCESS OF CHANGE FROM AN AGRARIAN, HANDICRAFT

ECONOMY TO ONE DOMINATED BY INDUSTRY AND MACHINE
MANUFACTURE
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION BEGAN IN ENGLAND ABOUT 1760

RADICAL CHANGES AT EVERY LEVEL OF CIVILIZATION THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

GROWTH OF HEAVY INDUSTRY BROUGHT A FLOOD OF NEW BUILDING MATERIALS— CAST IRON, STEEL, AND GLASS

ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS DEVISED STRUCTURES HITHERTO UNDREAMED OF IN FUNCTION, SIZE, AND FORM.
 THIS NEW WAY OF THINKING WAS THAT RATIONAL THOUGHT BEGINS WITH CLEARLY STATED PRINCIPLES, USES CORRECT
LOGIC TO ARRIVE AT CONCLUSIONS, TESTS THE CONCLUSIONS AGAINST EVIDENCE, AND THEN REVISES THE PRINCIPLES IN
THE LIGHT OF THE EVIDENCE
AGE OF ENLIGHTMENT TO REFORM SOCIETY USING REASON, TO CHALLENGE IDEAS GROUNDED IN TRADITION AND FAITH, AND
TO ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE THROUGH THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD.

PROMOTED SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT, SKEPTICISM, AND INTELLECTUAL INTERCHANGE.

THE ENLIGHTENMENT WAS A REVOLUTION IN HUMAN THOUGHT.

CONSEQUENCES???