The Industrial Revolution transformed the productive power of societies.
As long as mechanical.
Pre-Industrial societies had access only to very limited Energy supplies.
The answer lay in the use of a new source of energy.
In this new account by one of the world\'s acknowledged authorities the central issue is not simply how the Revolution began but still more why it did not quickly end.
It did so by vastly increasing the individual productivity, thus delivering whole populations from poverty.
The Industrial Revolution transformed the productive power of societies