"Industrialization is, I am afraid, going to be a curse for mankind..." Ghandi, the famous Indian nationalist and spiritual leader said this. I think by this statement he means that the people of his culture were treated unfairly. Once different countries adapted to industrialization, small-scale, village-based, handicraft manufacturing ways of modern industry were abandoned. Ghandi tried to prevent this from happening but was unsuccessful.
The Industrial Revolution reached a great acceleration in the rate of technological innovation, leading to an enormously increased output of goods and services. New sources of energy were used, such as coal fired steam engines and later on petroleum-fueled engines. Early signs of the technological creativity that spawned the Industrial Revolution appeared in the eighteenth century Britain, where a variety of innovations transformed cotton textile production. The biggest breakthrough was the steam engine, because it provided an inanimate and almost limitless source of power beyond that of wind, water, or muscle and could be used to drive any number of machines as well as locomotives and oceangoing ships. Eventually the Industrial Revolution spread beyond the textile industry to iron and steel production, railroads and steamships, food processing, construction, chemicals, electricity, the telegraph and telephone, rubber, pottery, printing, and much more.
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