Last year, then–business secretary John Hutton pinpointed industrial manufacturing as. As London seeks to end the financial crisis, ... Britain Considers a Second Industrial Revolution.

Mark Stein, manager of General Motors' Vauxhall van plant in Luton, 29 miles north of London, starts presentations with an aerial photo of the site in 1965. It shows a vast complex of buildings ...

The First Industrial Revolution found ways of using water and steam power to mechanize production and improve transportation. The Second Industrial Revolution—referred to as the Technological ...

The Second Industrial Revolution was spurred by inventions in machine tools—the industrial production of interchangeable parts. During this period, the United States did not produce the world’s most ...