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The story of how a primate species created a world full of skyscrapers, airplanes, nuclear weapons, and vaccines. From the mass production of cotton weaving in the first industrial revolutio...
In the late 19th Century, the nature of imperialism was evolving. Driven by Realist geopolitics, capitalist forces, and racist assumptions,...
A guest episode from the podcast History Daily ! As we discussed back in Chapter 52, the new railroads played a major role during the U.S. C...
In the mid-19th Century, two eastern empires were humiliated by industrialized powers. To avoid further humiliation, they both decided to in...
The Second Industrial Revolution more or less coincided with the lifespan of the German Empire. From 1871 to 1914, the new nation adopted a...
At the end of the 19th Century, workers throughout the world were fighting increasingly bitter, bloody battles against their capitalist boss...
During the late 19th Century, socialism fractured into numerous schools. In this episode, we explore the growing field of socialist thought,...
Beginning in the 1870s, the Neoclassical School of Economics emerged. Borrowing the idea of marginal analysis from calculus, and applying it...
As industrialization drove economic growth all over the Western World, financial systems had to keep growing in complexity and value. And as...
Americans had long believed their country was a classless society. But by the end of the 19th Century, that myth had been shattered. In the...
The live recording of my recent Mill Talk at the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation.
In the mid-19th Century, two new industrial developments were underway. In the UK and US, new discoveries were made for the refining of crud...
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Electric power has become a staple of our daily lives. In this episode, we’ll discuss how it was made possible. Topics covered include: The...
It is simply impossible to imagine life today without the mass-production of steel and rubber, made possible during the Technological Revolu...
More so than in the First Industrial Revolution, the Second Industrial Revolution saw big changes in consumer markets. Thanks to mail-order...
In this episode, we talk about the many changes to American life brought about by the railroads in the late 19th Century. Topics include: Ne...
A quick introduction to the Second Industrial Revolution. Become a patron of the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/indrevpod
In the mid-19th Century, scientists would upend everything human beings understood about themselves and the world around them, and they woul...
In an age of expanding railroads, steam-driven ocean liners, transnational telegraphs, and more, the world experienced its “First Wave of Mo...
In the wake of the Industrial Revolution, human beings were becoming increasingly aware of the things that united them and the things that d...
In this episode, we talk about the super-deadly conflicts that happened between the First and Second Industrial Revolutions: The Crimean War...
In the mid-19th Century, cities across the industrializing world began to modernize. New infrastructure was added, new layouts of streets an...
The 19th Century was fraught with public health challenges – many of them spurred by the Industrial Revolution. In this episode, we look at...
This month we explore the life, times, and ideas of one of history’s most controversial figures. The Industrial Revolution marked a turning...
A look back on all the incredible changes the world saw in the First Industrial Revolution, and some looking forward to the future. Submit y...
In 1848, the effects of the industrialization and financial modernization combined with the forces of burgeoning ideologies and class and na...
Telling the story of the Industrial Revolution would not be complete without spending some time on Queen Victoria and her consort, Prince Al...
The second of two episodes devoted to the cultural changes underway in the 18th and 19th Centuries, thanks (at least in part) to the Industr...
Support the Industrial Revolutions on Patreon: www.Patreon.com/indrevpod The first of two episodes devoted to the cultural changes underway...
With the rise of capitalism, industrialization, and liberal economic policies, the relative power of the old, landed aristocracy was waning....
This month we get to know the first wave of socialist thinkers – the Utopian socialists – including Robert Owen, Étienne Cabet, Jean Claude...
Historians have generally had two very different takes on the Industrial Revolution. One take is that it left workers with a lot of grime, e...
From 1830 to 1848, a surge of liberalism swept through the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. It not only brought new political and econom...
At the tail-end of the First Industrial Revolution, a flurry of new goods and tools were invented by professional and hobbyist inventors ali...
Advancements made in paper-making, printing, and lithography during the First Industrial Revolution led to many other developments. Among th...
In 1839, inventors in England and France simultaneously introduced the world to photography, putting “a new force in the hands of man.” We’l...
Without advancements in artificial light, much of the economic development and material improvement of the Industrial Revolution wouldn’t ha...
This week, we discuss the development and impact of the electric telegraph – a new means of communicating through metal wires at the end of...
This week we explore the lives and careers Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Cornelius Vanderbilt – two of industrial history’s most prolific indi...
At the start of the 19th Century, the U.S. economy was very similar to the cash-crop export economies of the soon-to-be-independent countrie...
This week, we’re stepping away from Europe and the United States to look at the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the rest of the world...
This week we discuss how railroads rapidly spread across Great Britain, the United States, and Continental Europe between 1830 and 1848. In...
By the 1820s, canal transport could no longer keep pace with the efficiencies of mass production in British factories. It would take a new m...
The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain made the surprising success story of the Rothchilds possible. And the Rothschilds, in turn, made...
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Going back to the 1600s, the development of modern financial systems transformed life on planet earth. Debt markets and stock markets helped...
The practice of slavery was as old as the written word. But in the age of Europe’s global empires, it took a racist and even more sinister t...
As chemistry advanced in the 18th Century, it was applied to perhaps the all-time greatest dream of humankind: Learning how to fly. In this...
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One of the world’s first coal-powered factories was the Albion Mills, smack-dab in the heart of London. Built by Boulton & Watt, it put the...