The men who make it are craftsmen: the millwright, the watchmaker, the canal builder, the blacksmith.What makes the Industrial Revolution so peculiarly English is that it is rooted in the countryside.
There was a consumer revolution, as people in England and elsewhere started to replace durable, homemade goods with cheaper, mass-produced alternatives.
It was an extremely important city during the American Revolution – the revolution against Great Britain when America separated itself and became the United States of America.
By the end of the 19th Century, the USA had overtaken the UK as the world's fastest growing economy, and America's " economic imperialism" continued the momentum of the British Industrial Revolution into the 20th Century.