The term Industrial Revolution is commonly used for the period between [?] and 1830, a time of great [?] development and invention. Increased [?] brought Britain both opportunities and miseries it had not known before. The North and the Midlands with their [?] resources of [?], which in turn fuelled the iron and [?] industries, and with their great [?] delivering raw materials from the [?] became the manufacturing centre of Britain and, for a while, "the workshop of the world." [?] were built to make the production of cotton textiles more efficient and there was a massive increase in [?] in the textile towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire, as well as in the [?] areas around Birmingham and Glasgow. [?] workers and farmers [?] to the cities which [?] rapidly within a few [?].
This [?] of the British economy necessitated radical changes in the system of transport, too, and new [?], such as the steam [?], made great improvements possible. The building of a [?] system speeded up the exchange of [?] enormously, as did macadamized [?] and the construction of a complex network of [?].
Britain was the [?] country to change from an [?] to an industrial economy. From employing about a [?] of the labour force and generating the same proportion of the national income in 1801, agriculture's share [?] to less than 10 per cent in 1901. Britain was the first [?] nation, but by the 1870s there were signs that this position of [?] would soon be challenged.

See online:
The Age of Industrialization
The Llangollen Canal