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How the Industrial Revolution created modern debt - Reuters Blogs

This is an excerpt from Paper Promises: Debt, Money and the New World Order, published this week by PublicAffairs. Consumers have always borrowed money from friends, neighbors and relatives. Merchants would not exist without credit; the habit of making ... More...

Visitors will find 'Gizmos and Gadgets' aplenty at the History Museum of Mobile - Birmingham News

by the idea of a “hat conformateur.” And yet these inventions, and thousands more that we take for granted, were products of the Industrial Revolution that would radically alter the lives of people worldwide. These machines made ... More...

Wedgwood Museum closure condemned by Unesco - The Guardian

Simon Wedgwood, one of Josiah's descendants, told the Guardian the museum held unequalled correspondence from Industrial Revolution figures over 250 years. "The loss to the nation and the world would be incalculable," said Wedgwood. "It is ... More...

Looking Back While Looking Ahead - New York Times

So much so that nostalgia dominated design during the early years of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century. One of the most dynamic industrialists of the time, the British potter Josiah Wedgwood, was a tireless innovator in every ... More...

Kaluza column: Time to rethink naptime - St. Cloud Times

More than 80 percent of mammals nap several times a day. It’s work schedules — remember the Industrial Revolution — that established humans’ modern sleep patterns. Some cultures have always recognized the benefits of naps. Now some ... More...

Op-ed: Sweatshops a first step to success: Low paid work’s better than none - Maine Campus

The conditions Cocklin mentioned in these Third World nations — low wages, minimal worker rights and child labor — were present in our nation during the Industrial Revolution. Sweatshops have proved to be the first rung on the ladder of ... More...

New Life for a 100-Year-Old Flour Mill - Triple Pundit

The site architecture is an engineering study that now stands as a monument to the industrial revolution, and one of the oldest industrial sites in Arizona. If we look at the site as the epitome of the industrial revolution, we may also want to widen the ... More...

Will Peak Oil Spell the End of Capitalism? - Dissident Voice

We are always taught that the industrial revolution of the late 18th century was the result of British technological innovation, the view promoted by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations. Unfortunately Smith totally overlooks the importance of ... More...

Driving the Next Industrial Revolution Through Efficiency - Triple Pundit

President Obama’s call in his State of the Union address to capitalize on “the strongest two-year period of manufacturing growth since the 1990s” by encouraging businesses to bring work back to the United States can be accelerated with energy ... More...

Newt and the Refugees of Globalization - Huffington Post

The traditional Republican brand that Mitt Romney represents came into ideological maturity during America's post Civil War Industrial revolution. In the 40 years from 1860 to 1900, America went from hovering around the 8th or 9th largest economy in the ... More...

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