Technological Change
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The technological changes of the eighteenth century did not appear suddenly. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the
methods of making glass, clocks, and chemicals advanced markedly. By 1700 in England, and by 1750 in France, the tendency of
the state and the guilds to resist industrialization was weakening. In fact, popular interest in industrialization resembled the wave of
enthusiasm elicited by experimental agriculture.
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