Which of the following statements regarding the Industrial Revolution is/are correct?
- 1. It was change of a society from a rural and agricultural lifestyle to one in which most people earned their living in the industrial or secondary sector of the economy.
- 2. The first Industrial Revolution began in Germany in the early eighteenth century.
- 3. During Industrial Revolution, technological advances in iron smelting, and later steel production, were accompanied by the invention of steam engine.
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2. The first Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain (England), not Germany, and it is generally considered to have started in the latter half of the 18th century (around the 1760s), not the early 18th century.
3. Major technological breakthroughs during the first Industrial Revolution included innovations in textile machinery, the steam engine (perfected by James Watt), and significant advancements in iron production (e.g., Abraham Darby’s coke smelting) and later, steel production.