Fossil fuels powered the industrial revolution. Would aliens need a similar power source to jump-start a technical revolution ...

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 ...

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

The first industrial revolution moved us from muscle to mechanical power between 1760 and 1840, the second brought mass production in the late 19th and 20th centuries, and the third delivered ...

The coal age is over in the country that sparked the industrial revolution 200 years ago. In a matter of hours, the boilers at the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station — each the height of a 12-story ...

Before the Industrial Revolution, making textiles was a slow process carried out by people using simple equipment, mostly in their own homes. By the end of the Industrial Revolution, the ...

Local manufacturing of products from digitally submitted designs is not subject to these commercial rates and will disrupt ...