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03-07-2011 , 10:49 AM

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Discover of fire and the wheel.

Getting iron out of the ore.

Inventing and building of the steam engine.

More?

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03-07-2011 , 12:48 PM

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Discovery of energy, electricity and electro magnetism.

This is not only crucial to modern industrialism but also a large portion of modern physics.

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03-07-2011 , 03:50 PM

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If you're going to include fire and the wheel, you sure as hell better include agriculture as well. With agriculture, there is no "civilization" period.

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03-07-2011 , 05:29 PM

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i'm a little confused by OP.

like, we could've never industrialized if it weren't for those things? well no ****!

and which IR? 1st or 2nd? because the Bessemer Process sure played a big part in the 2nd...

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03-08-2011 , 12:39 AM

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I just tried to create a history thread about something else than all the wars. Do it better.

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03-08-2011 , 01:39 AM

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Zeno, could you please change the thread name to "Key steps of industrialism"? That´s closer to what I meant. Thanks.

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03-08-2011 , 10:50 AM

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With the title fixed I think this thread can take new power forward. My original title was "Key points of industrialism", and that to some extent left open what I meant.

Ok, now we have, on a time scale:

Fire
Agriculture
Wheel
Iron
Steam engine
Other energy sources than wood
Electricity and electromagnetism

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03-08-2011 , 07:04 PM

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a lot of these aren't necessary 'industrialism', but 'civilization'

I'd say the main ones are a discovering the way to exploit a concentrated fuel source (like coal), a mechanism that converts it into power (engines), something to convert the power into work (engineering/machinery) to produce products, and the organisation of labour.

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03-09-2011 , 12:33 PM

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Industrialism needed enough people. Maybe it was the even more brains that really pushed things forward? And more mouths, of course

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03-09-2011 , 05:11 PM

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Institutional factors like banking and joint-stock companies (and later corporations with their set of legal protections) were pretty important, too. Whether they were a necessary condition is more controversial, but it's a certainty that these institutions greatly favored industrialization in Britain.

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03-10-2011 , 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by plaaynde

Discover of fire and the wheel.

Don't forget evolving from apes while you're at it...

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