Just to go by wikipedia, there were three areas in which innovations were most important in triggering the industrial revolution: the textile industry, the development of the steam engine, and metallurgy.
Of these three industries and the innovations which vastly changed them, which would you say had the biggest effect in triggering the Industrial Revolution?
ETA: In the above poll, metallurgy is probably a better word than iron.
Of these three industries and the innovations which vastly changed them, which would you say had the biggest effect in triggering the Industrial Revolution?
ETA: In the above poll, metallurgy is probably a better word than iron.