Industrial Revolutionin a sentence
- Since the Industrial Revolution, many have taken increasing standards of living for granted. But prior to the revolution, generations of farmers continued to farm, live in impoverishment, and die early in a manner similar to that of their distant ancestors.
- This civilization had advanced to the Scientific Revolution and the Industrial Revolution.† (source)
- In essence, this is what had occurred in Manchester, England, in the nineteenth century, when the city became one of the first capitals of the industrial revolution.† (source)
- Every year they say we're going to get right up to the present, but we always get stuck in the Industrial Revolution.† (source)
- The industrial revolution was just starting up, and this new world would threaten everything people had known during the Enlightenment; at the same time, the new science and the new faith in science—including anatomical research, of course—imperiled many religious and philosophical tenets of English society in the first decades of the nineteenth century.† (source)
- Then he stopped and was crouching down near the bottom of a waterfall, a manmade waterfall coming down the side of the Industrial Revolution.† (source)
- America's a brave new Atomic world and the South's just beginning its Industrial Revolution.† (source)
- It appeared that the movie had had something to do with the Industrial Revolution.† (source)
- David Landes, the eminent Harvard historian, in his magisterial book, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, explores why it was Europe that nurtured an industrial revolution, and not Asia or the Middle East.† (source)
- We're going to have security-for the first time in centuries-for the first time since the beginning of the industrial revolution!† (source)
- The Industrial Revolution did not just introduce the concepts of the steam engine and the rotation of nitrogen-fixing and cereal crops.† (source)
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- We must not permit them to be accelerated into an industrial revolution and so destroy the first stable society on this planet.† (source)
- He skipped the Industrial Revolution so he could drag our class past the year 1900.† (source)
- Mae was watching the Annie-like figure walk toward the Industrial Revolution.† (source)
- "I just heard myself say, 'There was some wine in the waterfall by the Industrial Revolution.'† (source)
- We won't even make it to the Industrial Revolution at this rate.† (source)
- There was some wine in the waterfall—by the Industrial Revolution.† (source)
- "Well, this, I guess," said Fred Kinnan, "is the anti-industrial revolution."† (source)
- Like a junk heap from the Industrial Revolution, the structure exuded inhuman technological grimness and steel-bound barbarity.† (source)
- In contrast, it would be difficult to imagine--at least for the moment--millions of rural Pakistani or Egyptian teenage girls being fully educated and then allowed to move to the cities while still single to take up jobs and power an industrial revolution.† (source)
- After extracting a few contextfree specifics about the movie from her, I set to work writing an incredibly generic three-page paper about the Industrial Revolution.† (source)
- She, born of the industrial revolution, had not held as conceivable, had forgotten along with the tales of astrology and alchemy, what these men knew in their secret, furtive souls, knew not by means of thought, but by means of that nameless muck which they called their instincts and emotions: that so long as men struggle to stay alive, they'll never produce so little but that the man with the club won't be able to seize it and leave them still less, provided millions of them are…† (source)
- …torture, to enslave, to expropriate, to murder, but that they must resist the temptations of logic and stick to the discipline of remaining irrationalthat skyscrapers, factories, radios, airplanes were the products of faith and mystic intuition, while famines, concentration camps and firing squads are the products of a reasonable manner of existence-that the industrial revolution was the revolt of the men of faith against that era of reason and logic which is known as the Middle Ages.† (source)
- Kitsch is a product of the industrial revolution which urbanized the masses of Western Europe and America and established what is called universal literacy.† (source)
- Meantime, starting in this decade yet especially developing from 1885 to 1895, began the industrial revolution of the South.† (source)
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