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A view of a steam locomotive as it pulls a train along a track
The steam engine is often cited as the hallmark of the first industrial revolution . Introduction of the steam engine to the textile manufacturing process in the 1780s forever changed the manufacturing world , opening new possibilities for manufacturing scale and efficiency . At the same time , it challenged the status quo , requiring new management techniques , new operating processes , and new types of workers to man the large factories where machines replaced people in previously labor-intensive activities in what was once a cottage industry . Similarly , later manufacturing technologies , such as the Bessemer process in the 1850s and the computer in the 1960s propelled the second and third industrial revolutions .
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