A reason people were open to new inventions during the Industrial Age is that new inventions made life easier for many people. Inventions provided a better quality of life.
The Industrial Age refers to a period of history in which changes in terms of economic and social organization began around 1760 in Great Britain and later in other countries, in which hand tools were replaced with power-driven machines such as the power loom and the steam engine,as well as by the concentration of industry in large establishments.