The Industrial Revolution refers to past changes from agrarian and manual labor systems of production to mechanization.

Watt's steam engines helped power the Industrial Revolution and they were found in mines and factories all over Britain. The popularity of the engine made Watt a very wealthy man. An engraving ...

These are brilliantly described by Martin Hutchinson, a former Breakingviews columnist, in his new book “Forging Modernity: Why and How Britain Developed the Industrial Revolution, opens new tab”.

Coal powered the Industrial Revolution and the expansion of the British Empire. At the height of its reliance on coal, in the 1950s, about 96% of the United Kingdom's electricity came from burning it.