Question 1
What is meant by the term 'Industrial Revolution'?
Solution
'Industrial Revolution' means the important developments and inventions which revolutionised the technique and organisation of production in the later half of the 18th century. After the advent of the Industrial Revolution, the new machines and steam power were used in place of animal and manual power for producing the things.
The revolution replaced the cottage industry by the factories, the hard work by the machine work and the artisans by the capitalists.
