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Reading: Robert Allen (2011): Why the Industrial Revolution Was British: Commerce, Induced Invention and the Scientific Revolution

What are the other places that Allen has in mind (since Hiero of Alexandria’s aeropile in which building a first generation “steam engine” would have been possible as a marvel? Weren’t there other roads to industrialization that involved technological …
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From Light Bulb to Industrial Powerhouse: A Brief History of General Electric Company

To this day, GE’s spirit of invention fuels the company’s mission to move, power, build, and cure the world. A company of firsts Throughout its existence, General Electric has been responsible for many “firsts” in the world. Near the turn of the 20th …
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