The assumption that new technology has a detrimental effect on employment as automation displaces workers is a phantom that has stalked every industrial revolution. Yet in Europe, our research ...

Joel Mokyr’s A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy gives culture center stage in the rapid economic growth and industrialization brought about by the first Industrial Revolution and ...

Coal was the fuel that powered factories during the Industrial Revolution. Image caption ... commonly found in coal mines across Britain and Europe in the 1700s. Steam-powered engines in coal ...

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 ...

Europe says it will ease regulations on ... “At this moment, we face the extraordinary prospect of a new Industrial Revolution, one on par with the steam engine or Bessemer steel,” U.S ...