The industrial revolution was the biggest transformation in economic history. For centuries scholars have sought to understand why this process occurred in Britain around 1750. But without the ability ...
This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we go back in time for a historical conversation about the role patents have played with respect to innovation, and push back on the myth that patents were not ...
Humans who bore witness to the advent of steam power, the mass production of steel, electricity and the internet could not have predicted, in real time, what a profound impact those innovations would ...
Georgetown University history professor J.R. McNeill spoke last week at Duke about global environmental history and the Industrial Revolution. He discussed the environmental consequences of ...
The National Trust is to take over the running of museums in the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, with the help of a £9m government grant. It will replace Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust, which ...