You’re reading Age of Invention, my newsletter on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the history of innovation. This edition went out to over 7,400 subscribers. You can sign up here: Britain’s Industrial Revolution was about much more than the usual trope of “cotton, iron, and coal” — it’s something I’ll never tire of saying. But the country’s transition to fossil fuels really was remarkable. Even a hundred years before the invention of steam engines, London was already highly unusual in burning coal to power many of its industries and to heat its homes. And the city’s adoption of coal just so happens to coincide with its unprecedented and momentous late-sixteenth-century expansion — the
Great read! Thanks. Your article made me think of a recent talk that the Author's of Ten Global Trends Ronald Bailey made at a Cato talk which was highlighted on Page 5 of their book. England's primary role as a creator of individual property rights did aa much as the Steam Engine to drive the Industrial Revolution. Magna Carta and England's development of the individual rights was simply amazing in the force of nature it created.
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Great read! Thanks. Your article made me think of a recent talk that the Author's of Ten Global Trends Ronald Bailey made at a Cato talk which was highlighted on Page 5 of their book. England's primary role as a creator of individual property rights did aa much as the Steam Engine to drive the Industrial Revolution. Magna Carta and England's development of the individual rights was simply amazing in the force of nature it created.
Coppiced trees are no good for shipbuilding.