ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sole Proprietorship, Massachusetts National Guard, Scientific Revolution
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Module title: technologies that shaped the business world 1: mechanical age. Assignment title: engineering knowledge was the main driver of the industrial. Comment on this statement, considering the relationship between engineering and management systems during the industrialisation of a country of your choice. There have been many revolutions in history ranging from the agricultural (10,000 bc) to the iranian in 1979. In this assignment, i am studying the british industrial revolution (1760-1840) This came from the italian word revolutio meaning a turnaround". The industrial revolution is the name given to the movement in which machines changed people"s way of life as well as their methods of manufacture. " (history-world. org). Prior to this time (1760), people worked the land where they lived (either as tenants or landowners). the resultant crops harvested were for the family unit. Life expectancy was dependent on the prevention of the spread of disease and the availability of sufficient food.
