Every industrial revolution has been defined by one thing above all else: energy. The First Industrial Revolution took off with steam power. The Second surged f ...

It was the year 1816, and a young woman named Mary Shelly began writing the first science fiction novel, Frankenstein. It can be read as an allegory to the impact of the First Industrial ...

The first industrial revolution moved us from muscle to mechanical power between 1760 and 1840, the second brought mass production in the late 19th and 20th centuries, and the third delivered ...

Koehn, N. F. "Josiah Wedgwood and the First Industrial Revolution." In Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions, edited by ...