Tag Archive for: Revolution
How the Invention of Scotch Tape Led to a Revolution in How Companies Managed Employees
Richard Drew never wanted an office job. Yet the banjo-playing college dropout, born 120 years ago this Saturday, would go on to spend some four decades working at one of America’s largest …
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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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Invention of World Wide Web: Digital revolution kicks off
While the U.S. government can take credit for developing the protocols that underpin the Internet, it was the invention of the World Wide Web – a specific set of protocols available to anyone with a connection – in 1989 that had the biggest impact on …
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The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton review – a big bang moment
The birth of science in Europe was the greatest revolution of all, argues this dazzling polemic What is modernity and when did it begin? The answer depends a lot on the nationality and specialism of the historian you ask. Italians favour the achievements …
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The Invention That Spawned a Fashion Revolution
The Singer sewing machine was so revolutionary that even Mahatma Gandhi, who eschewed all other machines, made an exception for it. After learning to sew on a Singer in a British jail, Gandhi called it “one of the few useful things ever invented.”
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