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From the Industrial Revolution, we got interchangeable parts and standardization. I think those really had some of the largest impacts on society.
by KGIII 9y ago
From the Industrial Revolution, we got interchangeable parts and standardization. I think those really had some of the largest impacts on society.
- dalbasal 9y agoAbsolutely. It’s a good example of weird/unintuitive causation. Standardisation is a byproduct of industrialisation & mass production.
- kazen44 9y agoprobably the most important invention of the industrial revolution is the screw-cutting lathe by Henry Maudslay[1] Without the screw cutting lathe, precision parts where impossible to make. Without machine tools, creating basically any other machine that we use today would be impossible. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Maudslay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Maudslay
- gozur88 9y agoI would have said steam power.