 is a period of history that encompasses the changes

in economic and social organization that began

around 1760 in Great Britain and later in other
countries, characterized chiefly by the replacement of
hand tools with power-driven machines such as the
power loom and the steam engine, and by the
concentration of industry in large establishments.
 While it is commonly believed that the
Industrial Age was supplanted by the Information
Age in the late 20th century,[3] a view that has
become common since the Revolutions of 1989, as
of 2013 electric power generation is still based
mostly on fossil fuels and much of the Third
World economy is still based on manufacturing.
Thus it is debatable whether we have left the
Industrial Age already or are still in it and in the
process of reaching the Information Age
 Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by
Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and other
inventors, the telegraph revolutionized
long-distance communication. It worked by
transmitting electrical signals over a wire
laid between stations.
 The first typewriter to be commercially successful
was invented in 1878 by Americans Christopher
Latham Sholes, Frank Haven Hall, Carlos Glidden and
Samuel W. Soule in Milwaukee, Wisconsin