There are major developments and inventions in agriculture, manufacture and travel that eventually spread throughout Europe and North America. industry and manufacturing that was once all by hand could now be done by machine. it all started with the textile industry and spread to other products. Factories were built and steam powered machinery increased the manufacture. Enormous amounts of coal had to be burned to make enough steam to power the machines. Increased products meant that more goods needed to be transported, so canals were built, and roads and railways improved.
The effects of all this rapid change on society was enormous. More and more people left the land and went to towns and cities to work in factories. The growth of the towns couldn't keep up with the number of people pouring into them, and so housing was hard to get and people lived in slums in appalling circumstances.
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