The Industrial Revolution in the U.S. was a pivotal period of rapid technological advancement and socio-economic transformation. Following the early stir in Great Britain, the US began its journey ...

The Industrial Revolution introduced new machines, new industries and new jobs...even for children. Before the Industrial Revolution craftspeople made things in their own homes or in small workshops.

OUTSIDE THE SPRAWLING Frankfurt Messe, home of innumerable German trade fairs, stands the “Hammering Man”, a 21-metre kinetic statue that steadily raises and lowers its arm to bash a piece of metal ...

Whereas revolution has been a characteristic phenomenon of Third World societies in this century, in the industrial societies it has been conspicuous chiefly by its absence. The reasons for this have ...

The breakneck pace of industrialization in China -- where millions have left the countryside, flocked to cities and found factory jobs -- has drawn comparisons to the economic and social upheaval that ...

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we go back in time for a historical conversation about the role patents have played with respect to innovation, and push back on the myth that patents were not ...