Quantum fridges, batteries and clocks are brilliant inventions but still limited in power. Now physicist Nicole Yunger ...

The First Industrial Revolution took off with steam power. The Second surged forward with electricity and mass production. The Third brought us computing and automation. The Fourth, the one we are ...

Coal was the fuel that powered factories during the Industrial Revolution. Image caption, The Newcomen steam engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712. The engine was commonly found in coal ...

By the 1860s, steam power and coal became vital, further advancing industrialization and transforming America into a manufacturing powerhouse. Keywords Industrial Revolution, early American ...

and others harvested the fruits of the Industrial Revolution by creating vehicles powered by steam and internal combustion. These early rudimentary creations were scarcely superior to tried-and ...

Rivers have been more intensively used for power in the Don catchment than almost anywhere else in the country, particularly during the peak of the Industrial Revolution ... economy demanded ever more ...