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 ...

Stores around the city catered to the women’s desires, selling pre-made clothing, cloth by the yard ... Women's visibility as wage earners during the early Industrial Revolution was precedent setting, ...

We are on the very edge of what will be the next industrial revolution. Manufacturing, shipping, agriculture, mining, and even railroads and transportation stand to be much more productive.

The Industrial Revolution introduced new machines, new industries and new jobs...even for children. Before the Industrial Revolution craftspeople made things in their own homes or in small workshops.

An exhibition at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens explores how Western intellectuals viewed the climate crisis between 1780 and 1930 Anne Wallentine Caught between steel ...

The foundations of the modern world were laid by one major event—the industrial revolution. A profusion of new technologies and manufacturing processes, accompanied by innovations in finance and ...

It can be read as an allegory to the impact of the First Industrial Revolution on the new world. The First Industrial Revolution heralded production using steam, and the Second saw the usage of ...

Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial ...

Early man first invented tools. Then he invented jewellery. Archeologists have discovered strings of shells, believed to have ...

Some researchers have suggested sending waste into space. They’re mainly thinking about used radioactive fuel rods from ...

A significant percentage of Indian manufacturers are adopting niche technologies like Artificial Intelligence and robotics to ...

Coalbrookdale, within the Ironbridge Gorge, pictured in 1900 is often referred to as the cradle of the industrial revolution Considered the birthplace of the industrial revolution, the Ironbridge ...