England’s Industrial Revolution Begins

Imagine a world where everything you own was made by hand. Then,

in 18th-century England, everything changed. With an abundance of coal and a wave

of new inventions like James Watt’s steam engine, Britain became the world’s first industrial

powerhouse. Factories replaced cottages. Cities exploded in size.

It brought us mass production and modern medicine, but also harsh labor and smog-filled

skies. It was the birth of the modern world. We’re still living in the machine age

they started.