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Obviously the industrial revolution occured in Europe far earlier than it did in America. The industrial revolution was incredibly important in the development of technology and design. the industrial evolution was perhaps a result of a changing market and the need to produce a large quantity of goods in the most efficient way i.e. the birth of the assembly line. the assembly line was introduced by Henry Ford in the early 20th century. This …

…everybody does the same work, as was the case when the huge majority were farmers or, as seemed likely only forty or thirty years ago, were going to be machine operators. This is far more than a social change. It is a change in the human condition. What it means--what are the values, the commitments, the problems, of the new society--we do not know. But we do know that much will be different. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**