The quantity in the production and the industrial output were one on the main characteristic, feature of the Industrial Revolution.

And this is underlined with statistics.

The idea first appeared in Germany but it was also adopted in Great Britain. They loved counting, that is a fact but it was also the philosophy of utilitarianism. (See Jeremy Bentham)

i.e.: They thought prisons were very good because it protected people etc…

Happiness was not understood as smiling and so on …

Census of people in 1801: 10.5 million inhabitants

1911: 40.8 million inhabitants

Productions were very important (millions tones of cost-iron, pig-iron)

Most of the production was linked to the expansion of the railway.

Victorian Things, Asa Briggs

Everything was produced in mass, and especially every day life objects.

We are going to see now all these object:

- zinc bath which were very cheap and resilient, rather cold but rather practical

- cornices : small tablets you put at the corner of the wall

The book was seen as a revolution of the philosophy, everybody were shocked how someone dared …, he introduced himself as being a descendant of an animal line etc…

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