HOW WAS THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION BORN?

The Industrial Revolution was a historical process of economic and social transformations that took place between approximately 1760 and 1840, unleashing unprecedented changes in Western societies and, later, throughout the world

It was characterized by the use of new technologies applied to large-scale production and the concentration of factories in cities. The most important invention of the period was the steam engine, whose fuel was coal and whose use increased production and transportation to unprecedented levels. Other inventions were also important, such as spinning machines and the mechanical loom, which made it possible to produce more textiles in less time

The Industrial Revolution began in England, where a series of economic, political, social and technological conditions favorable to this great change had come together Throughout the 19th century it spread to other Western European countries, the United States and Japan.