The U.K.'s Next Industrial Revolution

The United Kingdom, birthplace of the industrial revolution. From the enlightenment, ideas leapt from parchment to workshop. Science entered the hands of makers, thinkers who shaped iron and fire into engines of change.Labor was scarce and costly. Necessity drove invention, and invention sparked a revolution. First, steam.Watt's engine gave industry its beating heart Darby and Cort forged iron into machines of power and precision. Arkwright’s looms, spun cloth from cotton at unprecedented scale. Then, elect ...