In Scotland, the Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes and economic expansion between the mid-eighteenth century and the late nineteenth century. By the start of the
Shipping on the Clyde, by John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1881
Cox's Stack, a Category A Listed Building in Lochee, Dundee, Camperdown Works, designed by George Addison Cox with James MacLaren, built 1865-6, visible on the city’s skyline.
Adam Smith, the "father of modern economics"
An 1851 illustration showing the reaping machine developed by Patrick Bell