As of 2017, magnetic storage media, primarily hard disks, are widely used to store computer data as well as audio and video signals. In the field of computing, the term magnetic storage is preferred and in the field of audio and video production, the term magnetic recording is more commonly used.
The development of the spinning machine by Sir Richard Arkwright in England led directly to the rise of the Industrial Revolution, and a new world of manufactured products.
The Industrial Revolution. While the Revolution in France was opening a new political era, another revolution was transforming economic and social life. This was the Industrial Revolution, which began in England around the 1780s and started to influence continental Europe and the rest of the world after 1815.lso, an industrial work-force is dictated by machines. People now had to work according to strict time schedules-humans had to be broken to the rhythms of the machine. Prior to this, people worked their own hours, took breaks when they felt like it, and generally controlled their own affairs.