DARPA in the US uses public money to stimulate innovation, including with the public competition which led to this robot. Britain's industrial strategy hopes to take inspiration from it. Credit ...

Prime minister Boris Johnson has outlined details of the government’s highly anticipated ten point plan for a Green Industrial Revolution. The strategy, announced today (18 November 2020), focuses on ...

Strategic Map: Britain’s Vulnerable Midlands. 8 minute read. TIME. August 19, 1940 12:00 AM GMT-4. ... the Industrial Revolution, which made them one of the world’s first great workshops.

Britain's transition from water power to coal-based steam power set the stage for the 19th century Industrial Revolution, which transformed much of Europe and North America into predominantly ...

The factories of the Industrial Revolution powered Britain for over a century. Why was coal crucial to this success? Find out more in this 3rd level Bitesize article.

As London seeks to end the financial crisis, some Brits want to go back to how things used to be—way back. Last year, then–business secretary John Hutton pinpointed industrial manufacturing as ...

Britain was the first country to have an Industrial Revolution, between about 1760 and 1840. It was made possible by the production of iron, and by people’s ingenuity, but it was driven by steam.

Britain is set to go coal-free for the whole of Friday, generating all its electricity without using even one lump of the most polluting of all the fossil fuels.