The historian’s splendid account sets out the ideas, inventions and relentless exploitation that drove the nation’s growth ...

Britain had a unique wage and price structure in the eighteenth century, and that structure is a key to explaining the inventions of the industrial revolution. British wages were very high by ...

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 ...

Industrial revolutions occur during periods of immense technological change that shape our world. The first Industrial Revolution took place from the 1750s to 1840. A surge in iron production led to ...