The past 20 years have seen remarkable shifts in technology, from smartphones to solar and the electrification of transport.

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From the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution—where figures like Benjamin Franklin harnessed the power of electricity—to the production lines of World War II, America's industrial prowess ...

Whilst the scientific revolution of the 17th century had spread ideas of rationalism and experimentation, and the industrial revolution had transformed the production of goods in the late 18th ...

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Courtesy State Library of Lucca/Library of Congress By any measure, the scientific revolution of the 17th century was a ... Similar sentiments underpinned the 19th-century invention of what historians ...

As 1665 drew to a close, many people were anxious about the following year, which would be burdened with the digits 666, the ominous Number of the Beast. Even though London was indeed devastated by ...