Was the Industrial Revolution the most important event in human history? Dan Snow is joined by economist and journalist ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

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 ...

Britain was already well on its way to an industrialized economy under the reign of the Stuarts in the 17th century—over 100 years before textbooks mark the start of the Industrial ...

With the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late 18th century, came the first wave of technology to transform the economic system. In the centuries that followed were further ...

Some periods in our history are so transformative that they create a clear divide between the world before and after. We attribute the 18th and 19th centuries to such a period. Named the Industrial ...

More than 200 years ago, the steam boiler helped spark the Industrial Revolution. Since then, steam has been the lifeblood of ...

Source: Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. Human history, in many instances, is punctuated by technological revolutions that have fundamentally altered the trajectory of civilization. From the steam ...