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To attempt to cover machine developments during the Industrial Revolution in just few pages is as absurd as it is impossible. This period of our history arose after the knowledge of previous eras had been accumulated and through a combination of a series of factors that resulted in a period of continuous advances and progress that ended up in a change of approach both in society and engineering, with technical developments of huge quantity.
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Paz, E.B., Ceccarelli, M., Otero, J.E., Sanz, J.L.M. (2009). Machinery During the Industrial Revolution. In: A Brief Illustrated History of Machines and Mechanisms. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2512-8_7
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