Question

Which answer below best describes the First and Second Industrial Revolutions?

Answer 1

2, the first IR shifted into water based machinery and the second IR shifted into industrial machinery.

Answer 2

The correct answer is 2) A shift from small-scale economies to large-scale industrial production in the 1700s and 1800s.

The answer that best describes the First and Second Industrial Revolutions is "A shift from small-scale economies to large-scale industrial production in the 1700s and 1800s."

The Industrial Revolution changed the way humans produced goods and the way people worked. During the First Industrial Revolution started in the 18th and represented a change in the manufacturing of goods due to new machines in factories that basically focused on the transformation of raw materials and textile manufacturing.

The Second Industrial Revolution started in the mid 19th century, and it focused on the production of steel, oil, and transportation.