Age of Invention, by Anton Howes
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The spirit of the nineteenth-century exhibitions of industry, and how we might organise a Great Exhibition for the modern day.
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Feb 19Comment 10Share
Increasing the supply of people becoming inventors is possibly one of the most significant, world-changing things that anyone can do. Some thoughts on …
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Feb 12Comment 5Share
I’m invariably asked a question to which I have a pretty poor answer: how can my research on the causes of innovation — and the unprecedented and drama…
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Jan 21Comment 32Share
You’re reading my newsletter, Age of Invention, on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the history of innovation. It currently goes out…
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You’re reading my newsletter, Age of Invention, on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the history of innovation. It currently goes out…
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Nov 27, 2020Comment 2Share
In the last post I pointed to the extraordinary, unprecedented growth of London in the period 1550 to 1700. From a medieval peak of about 50,000 inhabi…
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Nov 13, 2020Comment 6Share
You’re reading my newsletter, Age of Invention, on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the history of innovation. It currently goes out…
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You’re reading my weekly newsletter, Age of Invention, on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the history of innovation. I’ve recently …
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Over the past few weeks I’ve been swotting up on English inventors in the early seventeenth century. Curiously, it’s a period that’s often entirely neg…
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Welcome to my regular newsletter, Age of Invention, on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the history of innovation. If you enjoy it, …
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Welcome to my regular newsletter, Age of Invention, on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the history of innovation. If you enjoy it, …
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