The factories built after the Civil War led most men to leave their households to work. How did the Industrial Revolution affect ordinary people's work life? As industry jobs became available, people ...

In the industrial revolution, New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia saw the most growth. As of May 3, New York had three million residents. The number of people is 5. One thousand more people live in ...

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 ...

Houses like this were traditional in the Highlands of Scotland before the Industrial Revolution. Today most people in Scotland live in urban areas - large towns or cities. Families lived in the ...

There may be reasons to idolize the past — better music, cooler cars — but greater prosperity is not among them.

Vaucanson’s inventions prefigured the industrial revolution, during which mechanisation went from being a quirky curiosity to a force that reshaped the globe. We may be at an analogous turning ...

In the long view of history, technological advancement unleashed by the Industrial Revolution has come to be seen as a net positive for economic development and everyone’s well-being ...

Mokyr proposes that the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution were not exogenous developments ... a period that brought about a change in beliefs about people’s ability to use science to control ...