Industrial output was relatively positive throughout 2010, with year-on-year average growth of 10. 9 percent in the period January to September 2010, due largely to the mining sector where higher global demand for commodities led to higher prices.

Industrial output suffered, as well as public services, exposing Bulgaria being overdependent on Russia for raw materials.

Industrial output increased sharply and unemployment fell during the administration's first year.

Industrial sector represents 27 % of Croatia ’ s total economic output while agriculture represents 6 %.

Following the Industrial Revolution, perhaps a third of the world's economic output is derived from manufacturing industries — more than agriculture's share.

Industrial output for November 2010 reached another high, up 19. 37 % from a year earlier, indicating strong exports and a growing local economy.

Industrial output has gradually decreased from accounting for over half of Taiwan's GDP in 1986 to just 31 % in 2002.

* Industrial output surpasses the level of 1913 in the USSR.

There was also a population explosion in China, doubling to the size of 100 million, and an economic revolution in China that spurred manufacture and production rates which rivaled even Great Britain's coal and iron output in the early Industrial Revolution.

* Britain produces c. 2 % of the entire world's output of industrial goods and the Industrial Revolution begins.

* Industrial farm animal production, on the rise in the 20th century, resulted in farms that were easier to run, with fewer and often less-skilled employees, and a greater output of uniform animal products.

Industrial slums developed, and reinforced their own development through the interactions between factories, as when one factory's output or waste-product became the raw materials of another factory ( preferably nearby ).

Industrial output fell dramatically ; it is estimated that the total output of mines and factories fell in 1921 to 20 % of the pre-World War I level, with many crucial items experiencing an even more drastic decline.

Industrial output reportedly increased 233 percent between 1948 and 1959 ; employment in industry, 44 percent.

Industrial output has, however, grown rapidly in recent years, more than tripling between 2000 and 2007, making the fastest growing sector in the province compared to an agriculture and forestry sector that has grown by less than 50 % and a service sector that has more than doubled in the same time.

Industrial output in 2007 was 476. 6bn VND, accounting for 28. 9 % of the province's economy, compared to only 16. 5 % in 2000.

( Industrial output / worker )

Industrial output grew significantly during the period 1929-1942, while the total value of heavy industry in Japan, valued at approximately US $ 700 million in 1931, had risen to US $ 3. 7 billion by 1940.

* F. L. Luo, and H. Ye, “ Positive output multiple-lift push – pull switched-capacitor Luo-converters ,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol.

* 1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.

The Blackstone Valley was a major contributor of the American Industrial Revolution where Samuel Slater built his first textile mill.

Banknotes are mostly paper, but Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation developed the world's first polymer currency in the 1980s that went into circulation on the nation's bicentenary in 1988.

Knuth was elected as a Fellow ( first class of Fellows ) of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2009 for his outstanding contributions to mathematics.

The 19th century also saw the British Empire emerge as the world's first global power due in a large part to the Industrial Revolution and victory in the Napoleonic Wars.

* 1712: Thomas Newcomen invents first practical steam engine which begins Industrial Revolution in England.

Big industrial cities such as Coventry, Birmingham, Manchester as well as parts of Newcastle and Nottingham also have large diaspora populations due to the Industrial Revolution and, in the case of the first two, the strength of the motor industry in the 1960s and 1970s.

Cyclopaedia contains an enormous amount of information about the science and technology of the first half of the Industrial Revolution, very well illustrated by fine engravings.

Construction of major railways connecting the larger cities and towns began in the 1830s but only gained momentum at the very end of the first Industrial Revolution.

Steel is often cited as the first of several new areas for industrial mass-production, which are said to characterise a " Second Industrial Revolution ", beginning around 1850, although a method for mass manufacture of steel was not invented until the 1860s, when Sir Henry Bessemer invented a new furnace which could convert wrought iron into steel in large quantities.

* 1896 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

* 1999 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10, 000 mark ( 10, 006. 78 ) for the first time, during the height of the internet boom.

* 1938 – Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

The first was the European colonial expansion in Asia, Africa, Australia and even America in search of raw materials required by industries during the Industrial Revolution.

The concept of quality as we think of it now first emerged out of the Industrial Revolution.

West European social critics, including Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Louis Blanc, Charles Hall and Saint-Simon, were the first modern socialists who criticised the excessive poverty and inequality of the Industrial Revolution.

Abraham Darby I ( 1678 – 1717 ) was the first, and most famous, of three generations with that name in an Abraham Darby family that played an important role in the Industrial Revolution.

Local residents brought a class-action lawsuit, one of the first held in Massachusetts, against the United States Industrial Alcohol Company ( USIA ), which had bought Purity Distilling in 1917.

England was the first country to undergo the Demographic transition and the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions.

Industrial whaling emerged with organised fleets in the 17th century ; competitive national whaling industries in the 18th and 19th centuries ; and the introduction of factory ships along with the concept of whale harvesting in the first half of the 20th century.

* March 29 – For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10, 000 mark, at 10, 006. 78.

** The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 7, 000 for the first time, gaining 60. 81 to 7, 022. 44.

* February 23 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 30. 28 to close at 4, 003. 33 – the Dow's first ever close above 4, 000.