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where humanity learned to make everything faster, including its own mistakes.
means Relating to industry — the large-scale manufacturing of goods, or anything done on the heavy, mechanized, factory scale that industry implies.
from From Latin 'industria,' meaning diligence or purposeful activity — the same root that gives us 'industrious.' For centuries the word praised the busy, hardworking person. Then came the great factory boom, and 'industrial' shifted from describing human effort to describing the machines and systems that increasingly did that work instead — so the word that once meant 'hardworking' now mostly means 'made by something that never tires.'
- birthplace
- England's textile mills sparked it around 1760
- child labor
- factories ran on tiny hands for decades
- clock time
- factory whistles invented the modern workday
- steam first
- coal and steam powered the first machines
- music genre
- spawned a clanging, abrasive electronic sound
rhur valley — german industrial region producing 80% of the ruhr's coal and steel from 1850-1970s
manchester cotton mills — english city with 108 cotton mills by 1830, the world's textile manufacturing center
sheffield steel forges — yorkshire town producing 90% of british cutlery and high-grade steel from 1750 onward
pittsburgh steel plants — pennsylvania city with 300+ mills producing 50% of u.s. steel in early 1900s