John Eicher Presents The Industrial Revolution

John Eicher presented The 19th Century Industrial Revolutions during part four of his eight part series “Modern Western Civilization (1500-present) From Dawn to Decadence to Disillusionment” at the Hollidaysburg Area Public Library earlier this month.

It is the processes that created the entire built environment that we live in and the technologies that were produced during that time.

Eicher wanted the audience to understand that the 1800s was the era that saw the idea of the development of progression, the idea or often assumption that the future will be better than the past. This is a new id...