Industry & Commerce Tile

This interesting scene reminds one of the industrial revolution, impressive engineering, factories belching out smoke as they turned out products which would change the way people lived. Goods and raw materials been transported by river, spanned by an inpressive bridge, a feat of engineering! "The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes that occurred in the period from about 1760 to some time between 1820 and 1840. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, improved efficiency of water power, the increasing use of steam power and development of machine tools. The transition also included the change from wood and other bio-fuels to coal. The Industrial revolution began in Britain and within a few decades spread to Western Europe and the United States." From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia