Quantum fridges, batteries and clocks are brilliant inventions but still limited in power. Now physicist Nicole Yunger ...

The industrial revolution was an utterly transformative moment in British history, reshaping not just the domestic economy but eventually the world’s. Think railways, factories and mills ...

The industrial revolution stands out as a time of great prosperity and expansion as America entered the modern era. But what were the pitfalls of such rapid growth and who turned out to be the ...

The debate about whether the industrial revolution was a good or a bad thing for the Welsh language will probably last as long as Welsh itself. Modern industry started in the 18th century ...

Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution ...

Before the Industrial Revolution, making textiles was a slow process carried out by people using simple equipment, mostly in their own homes. By the end of the Industrial Revolution, the ...

In the Middle Ages the total population of the area was probably under 50 000 and this did not increase substantially until the 18th century when the coming of the Industrial Revolution transformed ...

Long before the onset of the first industrial revolution around 1760, it is recorded that early humans used crude weapons to hunt, employed basic methods to fish in shallow waters, and toiled with ...

Women's visibility as wage earners during the early Industrial Revolution was precedent setting, and has enduring relevance to our lives today. 1 Dublin, Thomas. Women at Work: The Transformation of ...

The Industrial Revolution of the 19th century radically ... The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech," which tells the history of the Luddite rebellion of the early 1800s, when clothworkers ...

Ben Jones and Rebecca Searle, "Humphrey Jennings, the Left and the Experience of Modernity in Midtwentieth-century Britain," History Workshop Journal 75, no 1 (2013): 190–212, 191. Humphrey Jennings, ...