As a boy growing up beside India’s railway lines, I found magic in the metallic thunder of passing trains. Now ...

The coal age is over in the country that sparked the industrial revolution 200 years ago. In a matter of hours, the boilers at the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station — each the height of a 12-story ...

The AI revolution might end up being much more consequential than the industrial revolution, but there are parallels that one ...

Coal powered the Industrial Revolution and the expansion of the British Empire. At the height of its reliance on coal, in the 1950s, about 96% of the United Kingdom's electricity came from burning it.

Turbines at the UK's last coal-fired power station have turned ... swift transition from the country that started the Industrial Revolution," Phil MacDonald, managing director of energy think ...

Since the industrial revolution, iron and steelmaking plants have grown up close to coalfields. Steel mills in the Ruhr Valley, Silesia, and South Wales all developed around coal deposits. Ever-larger ...

the birthplace of the industrial revolution marked a quiet, albeit monumental moment in its history. The giant machines that had spun inside the colossal Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power plant ...

The region’s energy, know-how and grit powered the Industrial Revolution. It’s following the same playbook today.