The Debate on the ‘Industrial Revolution’ · Part 3

HE I NDUSTRIAL R EVOLUTION T HEMES IN W ORLD H ISTORY The Great Exhibition of displayed “the Works of Industry of all Nations”, particularly the spectacular progress of Britain. It was held in London’s Hyde Park, in the Crystal Palace, made of glass panes set in iron columns manufactured in Birmingham. ‘There are good grounds for regarding the period - as that in which the Industrial Revolution really occurred, on a massive scale, transforming the whole economy and society much more widely and deeply than the earlier changes had done.’