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 ...

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 ...