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History

The Industrial Revolution

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During the Industrial Revolution, the average income per capita in Britain nearly doubled between 1760 and 1860, despite a rapidly growing population.

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Imagine a world where most people work on farms from sunrise to sunset—then, in just a few generations, machines and factories redrew the map of human life. How did that happen?