Historique

Industry (from the Latin indo, in, and struere, to build) has long meant: ability to do something, invention, know-how2 and, by extension, a trade that one practices to live

1. (mechanical, artistic or commercial3). The word did not take its current meaning until the eighteenth century, perhaps at the time of Law to designate all the operations that contribute to the production of wealth: the agricultural industry, the commercial industry, and the industry. manufacturière4. But before imposing itself, "industry" had to supplant the terms arts and crafts, or arts and manufactures, 5 mechanical arts, industrial arts. Industry is also called mechanical arts and manufactures in general, usually as opposed to Agriculture (Dictionary of the French Academy of 1932)

The emergence of new technologies and the available energies have profoundly changed the industry during the industrial revolutions. These marked milestones in the history of the

industry.