What was the Industrial Revolution? Check Major Causes and Impact

Explore the Industrial Revolution’s causes, key inventions, impacts, and how it shaped modern industry and global economies.

Industrialization's Impact on Economic Growth and Living Standards

Discover how industrialization boosts economic growth by improving productivity, increasing real income, and enhancing living standards through technological advancements.
Science Daily

Drought, not lack of 'working rivers', may have helped spur transition to steam power in Britain's industrial revolution

Britain's transition from water power to coal-based steam power set the stage for the 19th century Industrial Revolution, which transformed much of Europe and North America into predominantly urban ...
Inverse

300 Years Before the Industrial Revolution, the UK’s Wildlife Looked Strikingly Different

Travel back with me a few hundred years before the industrial revolution, and the wildlife of Britain and Ireland looks very different indeed. Take orcas: While there are now less than ten left in ...
The Conversation

Wildlife wonders of Britain and Ireland before the industrial revolution – my research reveals all the biodiversity we’ve lost

Lee Raye received small research grants from the Society for the History of Natural History to carry out some of the archive work which contributed to this article. Lee is the author of The Atlas of ...