The industrial revolution stands out as a time of great prosperity and expansion as America entered the modern era. But what were the pitfalls of such rapid growth and who turned out to be the ...

Women's visibility as wage earners during the early Industrial Revolution was precedent setting, and has enduring relevance to our lives today. 1 Dublin, Thomas. Women at Work: The Transformation of ...

THE author of this book is lecturer on economics in the University of Reading. The work is one which, in our opinion, is of firstclass importance, written in a most interesting style, and we ...

The early part of the Industrial Revolution may have exacerbated these conditions. Housing in factory cities was crowded, dirty, unheated, and unventilated. Food supplies were unreliable ...

At the start of the Industrial Revolution, canals and barges provided the solution. A pit pony in a coal mine, photograph taken in the early 1900s. There was estimated to be around 200,000 ponies ...

The reliance on huge amounts of coal as a fuel during the Industrial Revolution has had a serious effect on the environment. During the early decades of the Industrial Revolution, the main ...

How did the Enlightenment turn into the Industrial Revolution, which in turn was the starting point of sustained growth? Mokyr paints a backdrop of improved navigation and shipbuilding that opened ...

The invention and commercialisation of steam engines served as one of the early industrial revolution's biggest catalysts. Combustion engines ushered in an era of giant machinery and shortened ...