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or you can get all of History Daily plus other fantastic history podcasts at into History.com. The Industrial Revolution, the greatest change in mankind's ability to produce and

consume since the adoption of agriculture.

And as we all know, it began in Britain with the mechanization of textiles, the invention of the

spinning jenny, the flying shuttle, the water frame, and the power loom enabled leaps

in productivity up to 500 times what was possible by hand alone.

Then came the steam engine and from it locomotives and steam ships and the demand for iron these machines created was met by new coal-fueled

smelting technologies which themselves were enabled by steam-powered mining machines. It was

a flywheel of innovation and industry.

But that was in Britain.

Certainly, the nearby nations of Germany and France,

the newly formed United States across the Atlantic,

they all scrambled to catch up, making their own contributions

like the cotton gin, the automobile, and internal combustion engines. But what was the Industrial

Revolution like on the other side of the world.

In today's Saturday matinee, we bring you an episode from the podcast, The Industrial

Revolution, a show that details the history of inventions and the impact they've had in transforming the world's economies,

politics, social structures, family units, environment and more.

In the mid-19th century, two eastern empires were humiliated in conflicts with their industrialized

Western rivals.

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