The term mouse fly is kind of a contradiction and one of the types of flies that brings the word fly in fly fishing almost as far away from something flying as possible - still surpassed by shrimp flies not to mention crab flies, but anyway...
One of the reasons Britain became rich was because the Industrial Revolution (factories and such) got off the ground there sooner. Britain had a large navy, and many colonies in other parts of the world, such as India, and Rhodesia.
The Chinese did not, however, and this results in the Opium War (1839-1842). British naval power completely overwhelms the old Chinese ships. As a result of the Industrial Revolution, British ships are faster and more powerful because of the steam engine.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.