The Revolution began in the second half of the eighteenth century in the Kingdom of Great Britain, which then spread to much of Western Europe and North America, and concluded between 1820 and 1840. It was a period of economic, technological and social transformations in the history of humanity. The Industrial Revolution marks a point in history and the level of life had a sustained growth. A transition from manual labor to machinery for industrial manufacturing began. This transition began in the late eighteenth century and the expansion of trade was possible thanks to this development.