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What is meant by the term, 'Industrial Revolution'?
Industrial Revolution
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The Industrial Revolution is the name given to a series of changes that brought about a transition from production by hand to production by machine, from small-scale production to large scale production, from handmade goods to machine-made goods. It denotes all those changes that took place in the field of industry during the second half of the 18th century and the first half of 19th century.
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