For thousands of years following the rise of civilization, most people lived and worked in small farming villages. However, a chain of events set in motion in the mid-1700s changed that way of life for all time, this called the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution started in Britain, but it instead was a long, slow, uneven process in which production shifted simple hand tools to complex machines. While some might argue that Industrialization had primarily negative consequences for society because for example, it was actually a positive thing for society. Industrialization’s positive effects were railroads, cars, and a variety of jobs.
There was a lot of positive and negative consequences and here are a few good consequences. One of the positive consequences was
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The world’s first major rail line, from Liverpool to Manchester, opened in England in 1830. In the following decades, railroad travel became faster and railroad building boomed. By 1870, rail lines crisscrossed Britain, Europe, and North America. Although railroads were quick transportation car were excellent too.
The transportation revolution took a new turn when a German engineer, Nikolaus Otto, invented a gasoline-powered internal combustion engine. In 1886, Karl Benz received a patent for the first automobile, which had three wheels. A year later, Gottlieb Daimler introduced the first four-wheeled automobile. People laughed at the “horseless carriages,” which quickly transformed transportation. The French nosed out the Germans as early automakers. Then the American Henry Ford started making models that reached the breathtaking speed of 25 miles an hour. In the early 1900s, Ford began using the assembly line to mass- produce cars, making the United States a leader in the automobile industry. Although cars are great we still ne to go someplace with them so lets see what they got with the