How Did The Industrial Revolution Impact The World?

Beginning in Great Britain and continuing to Western Europe and later to North America, the Industrial Revolution has made a huge impact on the social and economic aspects of the world. Said by historians the Industrial Revolution was “the most important event in the history of humanity since the domestication of plants, animals, and fire”.With the ever evolving country, new ideas were made and old ideas were adjusted.Moving forward through the twentieth century, revolution in iron and steel kept growing. Before the 1920’s tall buildings such as skyscrapers were not very common. In most bigger buildings the builders used bricks for structural support, they did this because before steel the tallest building was not over six stories. In the 1850’s Henry Bessemer created a steel-making process and that began the big booming sales of iron and steel products to the U.S. Around the same time another company, Cooper and Hewitt were using a different method of making steel called “the open-hearth” process. This method was a little bit better than the Bessemer because this process allowed manufacturers more control over how the steel came out (wermeil). These two creations was just the start of something that would change not just the country but the whole worlds way of
grew mostly between 1875 and 1920 and with the numbers it made the united states the “world dominant leader” (steel industry, History)

Before steel, iron was the big thing; it was cheap to make and worked in many different ways. It was brought into the steel industry and mixed it with the steel. Andrew Carnegie was very well known in the steel industry, he made cheap and efficient railroads and much more. At one time he was the largest steel producer in the United States. In 1874 Eads bridge was opened using Carnegie steel (history of the steel industry). To make Iron it is a step by step process. Iron comes from mining into hillsides looking for ore or