That was a great day for my mother," Hans Rosling, a professor of global health at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet, said in one of his many TED talks. Unfortunately, about five billion people ...

The revolutionary century after the U.S. Civil War was made possible by a unique clustering, in the late 19th century, of “great inventions,” principal among which were electricity and the internal ...

Vaucanson’s inventions prefigured the industrial revolution, during which mechanisation went from being a quirky curiosity to a force that reshaped the globe. We may be at an analogous turning ...

The Industrial Revolution was the ... He explores the context and triggers, the inventions and innovations that powered the revolution. He also looks at the important economic, political and ...