What caused the human Population to suddenly "Industrialise" during the industrial Revolution?

during the industrail revolution, why did the human population suddenly invent new things? a physological change? genetics changes?, but it doesnt make since that for the past 5000 years, we were less industrialized and then we suddently started inventing thingsWhat caused the human Population to suddenly "Industrialise" during the industrial Revolution?
The cause of the IR may have been technological - i.e. an invention like the steam engine that revolutionized labor.



Or it may have been other than technological. That leaves a wider field.



One suggestion I'm rather fond of is that it had to do with a number of factors, all resulting in a population boom. The resulting urbanization (concentration of potential laborers), coinciding with larger markets of consumers, new sources of raw materials, and technologies that made manufacturing and transportation cheaper and faster allowed for the industrial revolution of the 19th century in England, northwestern Europe, and the United States.



So, what caused the demographic boom? Climate change, new "technologies" of crop rotation and substitution, the introduction of the South American potato to Europe, and the diffusion of more types of ploughs all contributed to the demographic explosion of Europe in the Early Modern Period.



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Look through history and you will see inventions that cause a quantum leap in the way we live.



The Industrial Revolution can largely be traced to the invention of the steam engine and mechanisation in general.



At the dawn of civilisation, it was agriculture that was manily responsible.



In our own time, the invention of the telephone and the computer has lead to an explosion in growth.What caused the human Population to suddenly "Industrialise" during the industrial Revolution?
I think it had to do with religion and politics. More progressive regions developed faster than those areas hanging on to the "old ways" and old beliefs. Progressive countries had more resources and more freedoms.
I think staisil is right--curiosity was unleashed and nurtured.



The massive progress and technological change was made possible by the decline in the power of the church, and the rise in the power of nation states. Add to this the fact that the Renaissance and the Reformation had made it okay to question the world--and how it works--again, and you have that incredibly clever species--human beings--doing what we do best: invent stuff. The mind was freed to think in other ways...therefore you get the Age of Revolutions (political and social) and the Scientific Revolution (technology).



So I think the basic answer is that people were allowed--and even encouraged--to be curious and inventive again. The power of nation states provided the funding (and the impetus) to develop new technologies.