Before the Industrial Revolution, making textiles was a slow ... a major exporter of them to the rest of the world. Several inventions made a significant difference in texture manufacturing ...

The discovery of crop rotation by Charles Townshend and other related agrarian inventions ... The Industrial Revolution ...

A man who’d been illiterate until he was eighteen, driving his own invention ... and the rest of Europe. Restless change, restless revolution. Like most revolutions, the industrial revolution ...