The Industrial Revolution or First Industrial Revolution is the process of economic, social and technological transformation that began in the second half of the 18th century in the Kingdom of Great Britain, which spread a few decades later to much of Western Europe and Anglo-Saxon America. and that concluded between 1820 and 1840. During this period the greatest set of economic, technological and social transformations in the history of humanity since the Neolithic period was experienced, which saw the transition from a rural economy based fundamentally on agriculture and trade to an urban, industrialized and mechanized economy
