Humans who bore witness to the advent of steam power, the mass production of steel, electricity and the internet could not have predicted, in real time, what a profound impact those innovations would ...

Riding on the shoulders of the Apollo generation, the Artemis missions will pave the way for humans to return to the moon, begin human exploration of Mars, and someday for humanity to reach the edges ...

Some periods in our history are so transformative that they create a clear divide between the world before and after. We attribute the 18th and 19th centuries to such a period. Named the Industrial ...

With the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late 18th century, came the first wave of technology to transform the economic system. In the centuries that followed were further ...

Source: Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. Human history, in many instances, is punctuated by technological revolutions that have fundamentally altered the trajectory of civilization. From the steam ...

List of maps -- Introduction -- Prologue -- The Anglo-Dutch-American archipelago -- part 1. Anglo-Dutch-American early modernity. The first Industrial revolution ; A geography of invention, 1500-1600 ...

The invention revolution -- The new industrial revolution -- The history of the future -- We are all designers now -- The long tail of things -- The tools of transformation : four desktop factories -- ...