Frankenstein

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

The real plot begins when an old, half - dead man tells the captain of a ship, how he winded up floating on a piece of ice on the virge of death. He talks about where he went to school, and how he stumbled upon the means to animate lifeless material. After a year of work and study, he brings to life a gruesome monster, who he fearfully runs away from. Years later, he meets the monster again after it kills it's creator's brother. He finds the monster, who tells his own tale, and begs his creator to make a wife for him, and only then will he leave him alone forever. That's as far as I've gotten so far.

My group is studying the Industrial Revolution, which is believed to have happened around the 18th century to the 19th century. It originally started in Britain, and gradually the revolution enveloped most of the world. Over the course of many years, a lot of new and helpful inventions were created, (steam power, powered machinery, internal combustion engines, etc.)

One thing I want to know about this time period, is how the world advanced so much faster with technology during the Industrial Revolution then ever before. If the world HAS advanced like that before, when was that? (Besides the Enlightement era).