We created a print literate workforce with the communication skills to organize a First Industrial Revolution driven by coal and steam power.

FORBES: Jeremy Rifkin's Third Industrial Revolution

The innovation and wealth graph tilts up a bit during the Renaissance and again after the steam engine launched the first Industrial Revolution.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The innovation and wealth graph tilts up ever so slightly during the Renaissance and then tilts again after the steam engine launched the first Industrial Revolution.

FORBES: How The Cheap Revolution Confuses Policymakers

Home and work, separated since the first stirrings of the Industrial Revolution, have been growing back together again: BlackBerry on the nightstand, toaster in the photocopy room.

NEWYORKER: Not So Fast

After a preliminary canter across the historical background of the industrial revolution and the possible problems of coming first, he devotes the heart of his book to case studies of big industries, ranging from textiles to aerospace, and from cars to pharmaceuticals.

ECONOMIST: British industrial decline

After 1800, however, living standards began to increase, first in the West, as stagnant economies transitioned to the industrial revolution and to a period of modern economic growth where living standards double every 35 years.

FORBES: Prof. Edward C. Prescott On China

One peculiar characteristic of the industrial revolution is that it was, at least at first, confined to Britain.

ECONOMIST: Why it started in Britain