Industrial Revolutions in the 20th and 21st Centuries | History Form Five
In a modern society, people travel and transport goods with planes that move fast. They also produce goods with the help of computers and robots. These advances are the products of a long history of industrial revolutions. Background to industrial revolutions in the 20th and 21st centuries Industrial revolutions are classified into four phases: The first industrial revolution (1760s-1840s), the second industrial revolution (1870s-1910s), the third industrial revolution (1970s-late 1980s), and the fourth industrial revolution (late 1990s to the present). The Third Industrial Revolution The Third Industrial Revolution can be understood as a series of technological inventions which positively affected production and distribution methods in industrial states, and those inventions brought about phenomenal changes in the world economy during the 1970s and 1980s. These inventions led to a marked increase in productivity, focusing on four areas of scientific development namely: information te...
