What are special features of the modern industry ?
Answers
One of the most obvious differennces between preindustrial and modern industrial societies is the greatly diminshed role of agriculture.
The transportation was first noted in England then Scotland and Great Britain has been described as ‘’the fist industrial nation’’.
1)The extensive use of mechanically powered machinery
2)The introduction of new ,inanimate sources of power (or energy) especially fossil fuels
3)the widespread use of materials that do not normally occur in nature.A related feature is the larger scale of enterprise in most
industries.
But the most important developments in the application of energy in the early stages of industrialization involved the substitution of coal for wood and charcoal as fuel and the introduction of the steam engine for use in mining,manufacturin and transpotation.