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Economics of the Industrial Revolution

Lectures in History

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The Importance of Mechanization

The holy grail of homogenisation is full interchangeability. The napoleonic wars involved huge armies, far beyond the scale ofwars in the seventeenth and sixteenth century. People often had a machine and they had to constantly be tinker together. There weren't these dingylies that you had to worry about bringing him tho shop all the time. We're so used to cars that rarely break down but even as late as the sixties and seventies most cars were really unreliable. It may be the only thingo pared em with e maybe some of the struggles in asia, particularly those involving the chinese empire instead mongols.

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