THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. More good than bad The Industrial Revolution is the name given to the movement in which machines changed people's way of life as well as their methods of manufacture. About the time of the American Revolution, English People began to use machines to make cloth and steam engines to run the machines. Later they invented locomotives. Productivity began a steep climb. By 1850 most Englishmen were laboring in industrial towns and Great Britain …showed first 75 words of 808 total…

…showed last 75 words of 808 total…century. The work in the factories changes from collective, as it used to be in the farms and in the villages, into individual. Individualism is a major Icon of the Enlightenment. Technology relates directly to progress. The Industrial Revolution is technology - from machines to methods to factories. They all show technological progress, higher efficiency and effectiveness, which improved life for the majority. Defiantly the Industrial Revolution had a more positive impact on the people.