A shift from handmade products to machine-made products.
The people and the ideas behind these machines were part of the Industrial Revolution, which began in England in the late 1700s and spread to the United States and the rest of the world by the early 1800s. During the Industrial Revolution, people shifted from making things and doing work by hand to making things and doing work with machines. It created a new class of workers as well as a new class of industrialists, owners of large factories and other businesses based on manufacturing.