The major effect of these advances appears to lie in the part they have played in the industrial revolution and in the tools which scientific understanding has given us to build and manipulate a more protective environment.

Living pictures of the early boroughs, country life in Tudor and Stuart times, the impact of the industrial revolution compete with sensitive surveys of language and literature, the common law, parliamentary development.

For example, out of the social evils of the English industrial revolution came the novels of Charles Dickens ; ;

With its history standing astride all but the very beginnings of the industrial revolution, Brown & Sharpe has become over the years a singular monument to the mechanical foresight of its founder, Joseph R. Brown, and a world-renowned synonym for precision and progress in metalworking technology.

Its production was influential in the industrial revolution, and influenced commercial development of metallurgy and engineering.

* Romantic Movement and the industrial revolution

Canal barges, towed by draft animals on an adjacent towpath, contended with the railway in the early industrial revolution, but were outcompeted in the carriage of high-value items due to the higher speed, falling costs, and route flexibility of rail.

Canal barges, towed by draft animals on a waterway adjacent towpath were of fundamental importance in the early industrial revolution, whose major early engineering projects were efforts to build viaducts, aqueducts and especially canal to fuel and feed the raw materials to the nascent factories being born in the early industrial takeoff, and take their goods to the ports and cities for distribution.

The barge and canal system contended favorably with the railways in the early industrial revolution prior to around the 1850s – 1960s for example, the Erie Canal in New York State is credited by economic historians with giving the growth boost needed for New York City to eclipse Philadelphia as America's largest port and city but such canal systems with their locks, need for maintenance and dredging, pumps and sanitary issues were eventually outcompeted in the carriage of high-value items by the railways due to the higher speed, falling costs, and route flexibility of Rail transport.

The Blackstone Canal ( finished in 1828 ) in Massachusetts and Rhode Island fulfilled a similar role in the early industrial revolution between 1828 – 48.

The demand for jewelry of this type coincided with the machine-age and the industrial revolution.

In the early stages of the industrial revolution, it seemed to be totally opposed to a process that seemed to undermine some of these bulwarks.

Although machines capable of performing all four arithmetic functions existed prior to the 19th century, the refinement of manufacturing and fabrication processes during the eve of the industrial revolution made large scale production of more compact and modern units possible.

Eindhoven remained a minor city after that until the start of the industrial revolution.

The industrial revolution of the 19th century provided a major growth impulse.

Most devices used in the industrial revolution were referred to as engines, and this is where the steam engine gained its name.

A “ by-product of the industrial revolution ”, Elizabeth grew up in an atmosphere of “ triumphant economic pioneering ” and the Garrett children were to grow up to become achievers in the professional classes of late-Victorian England.

Food manufacturing arose during the industrial revolution in the 19th century.

The beginnings of the industrial revolution in Germany came in the textile industry, and was facilitated by eliminating tariff barriers through the Zollverein ( customs union ), starting in 1834.

The power station supplied electric power to the heavy steel industry concentrated around Trollhättan Falls, contributing to its industrial revolution.

Prior to the industrial revolution and the ensuing pollution of the rivers, salmon were common in the rivers Rhine, Elbe, and Oder

Britain led the world in the development of railways and this acted as a stimulus for the industrial revolution, by facilitating the transport of raw materials and manufactured goods.

* 1775: James Watt invents a new efficient steam engine accelerating the industrial revolution in England.

The beginnings of the industrial revolution in Germany came in the textile industry, and was facilitated by eliminating tariff barriers through the Zollverein, starting in 1834.

Friedrich Engels in The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 spoke of " an industrial revolution, a revolution which at the same time changed the whole of civil society ".

In the Western world, societies changed from the agricultural to the industrial stage, new social and political ideas emerged, and social models slowly shifted from hierarchical towards egalitarian.

Export composition changed from predominantly agricultural commodities to industrial goods ( now 98 %).

Between 1860 and 1920, the economy changed from " agricultural to industrial to financial " and New York maintained its leadership position despite these changes, according to historian Thomas Kessner.

The discovery of the rubber-sulfur reaction revolutionized the use and applications of rubber, and changed the face of the industrial world.

In the last 20 years the industrial base of the region's economy has changed radically.

During the 40 years following that, the demographics changed considerably and it was regarded as a somewhat depressed industrial area.

In the last decade, the surrounding area has changed from a small village to industrial estates and new housing and shops.

On April 15, 1871, the name was changed from Picouville to Loreauville for Ozaire Loreau, who had contributed the property for the old Catholic Church and cemetery, and had also aided in the agricultural, industrial and political growth of the village

Although the borough remains an industrial town, the addition of many technology companies and a growing residential population has changed the landscape of this central New Jersey town.

In the ensuing decades the economics and method of manufacturing fertilizer changed with a modern chemical industrial process, resulting in the decreased reliance on guano.

In late 2000, the whole set was changed again to its current " industrial " look, changes initially welcomed due to the reduced ratings of the 1999-2000 season.

With the coming of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1852, the destiny of the area changed from a quiet rural community to a thriving industrial center.

Though the Liberal Unionist party disappeared as a separate organisation in 1912-the Chamberlain legacy helped keep the industrial powerhouse of Birmingham from returning to the Liberal party and would only be changed once more in 1945 in the Labour Party electoral landslide of that year.

Sloan, first as a senior executive and later as the head of the organization, helped lead ( and grow ) GM from the 1920s through the 1950s — decades when concepts such as the annual model change, brand architecture, industrial design, automotive design ( styling ), and planned obsolescence transformed the industry, and when the industry changed lifestyles and the built environment in America and throughout the world.

This changed radically in the late 1970s when several big Japanese conglomerates began producing similar industrial robots.

The term ' industrial archaeology ' was coined in the 1950s in Birmingham, England by Michael Rix ( academic ) although its meaning and interpretation has changed.

Between the early and the mid 1990s, many EBM artists split up, or changed their musical style, borrowing more distorted industrial elements or elements of rock or metal.

During this period the village of Mo i Rana was changed to an industrial city.

It was not until the last quarter of the 18th century that Oldham changed from being a cottage industry township producing woollen garments via domestic manual labour, to a sprawling industrial metropolis of textile factories.

Some sinkholes form when the land surface is changed, such as when industrial and runoff-storage ponds are created ; the substantial weight of the new material can trigger an underground collapse of supporting material, thus, causing a sinkhole.

However, industrial mining during the 19th and 20th centuries removed almost all of the limestone and dramatically changed the shape of the valley.

Residential, commercial and industrial use of electricity was confined, initially, to lighting but this changed dramatically with the development of electric motors, heaters and communication devices.

Originally a new wave-synthpop outfit, Ministry changed its style to industrial metal in the late 1980s.