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technicshistory.com
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| | | | | [Part of a series: The Age of Steam] Up until the 1780s, steam engines were used almost exclusively for pumping water. To the extent that they drove industrial machinery, it was almost always indirectly, by lifting water uphill from whence it could run back down and turn a waterwheel. Industry thus remained dispersed in villages... | |
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www.antonhowes.com
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| | | | | The Industrial Revolution was caused by an acceleration of innovation. But how was that acceleration caused? Most theories of the acceleration's causes assume that innovation is in human nature,... | |
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growthecon.wordpress.com
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| | | | | NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. I'm not an economic historian, but like most growth economists I am an avid consumer of economic history. Maybe it's our version of "physics envy". Regardless, it isn't always obvious why growth economists look backwards so much... | |
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www.bloomsburydesignlibrary.com
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| | | Introduction "Decolonization, which sets out to change the order of the world, is, obviously, a program of complete disorder. But it cannot come as a | ||
