What is the positive significance of the two industrial revolutions to the development of human history?

(1) The industrial revolution is an important stage in the history of capitalist development, which has achieved an important transformation from a traditional agricultural society to a modern industrial society.

(2) In production technology, it makes the machine replace manual labor; Factories have replaced manual workshops.

(3) The industrial revolution is also a profound change in social relations. It clearly divides society into two opposing classes ── the industrial bourgeoisie and the industrial proletariat.

The industrial revolution began in the 1960s of18th century, and by the second half of18th century, Britain had made remarkable progress. It is generally believed that it originated in central England and refers to the early course of capitalist industrialization, that is, capitalist production has completed the transition from workshop handicraft industry to machine industry. The industrial revolution is a production and scientific and technological revolution in which machines replace manpower and large-scale factory production replaces manual production in individual workshops. Because the invention and application of machines have become the symbol of this era, historians call this era the "machine age". /kloc-in the middle of the 0/8th century, after the Englishman Watt improved the steam engine, a series of technological revolutions caused a great leap from manual labor to power machine production. Then spread to Britain and even the whole European continent,19th century spread to North America. It is generally believed that steam engine, coal and steel are the four main factors to accelerate the technological development of industrial revolution. Britain was the first country to start and end the industrial revolution.