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Although the Industrial Revolution in Britain saw a lot of advancements in not only the labour markets but also social and scientific advancements it wasn't until the refinement of the hand-operated Gutenberg-style printing press that the world started to see a real influx of printed materials and by 1800   Lord Stanhope in Britain   had built a press completely from cast iron which reduced the force required to created printed materials by 90%, while doubling the size of the printed area.   With a capacity of 480 pages per hour, it doubled the output of the old style press. Nonetheless, the limitations inherent to the traditional method of printing became obvious and a new era of printing was born. There were many publications during this time that where describing this new technology.   Encyclopaedias   such as Harris's   Lexicon Technicum   (1704) and Dr Abraham Rees's   Cyclopaedia   (1802–1819) contain much of value. Cyclopa...

The rise of Industry will continue to see man endeavour to create more and more complex machinery and continue to see an upward trend the average standards of living, providing more people with more leisure time and more disposable income to enjoy. The gab between developed and developing countries is easily separated by their percentages of industrialised work forces. The initial revolution may have passed but there is still much more for Industry to do. But as we are seeing today, just as we did almost one hundred years earlier, there is more and more strain being put on a finite amount of minerals and commodities. As we continue throughout history we will continue to see nations and companies fight for what natural resources are left and more conflicts will unfortunately inevitably arise. We can take a lot from looking back in time and reviewing the beginnings of Industry; if we could heed the lessons of generations past can we change the future? Here is a little video I wanted to p...

The industrial Revolution saw an unprecedented rise in technology throughout the 18 th and 19 th century and put immense strain on the mining and natural resources sectors that were unprepared for such a rise in demand. Although the Industrial Revolution saw the rise of the middle class, better working conditions and wages, it also slowly revealed an uneasiness between the developing industrial powers in Europe and the world. Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz In Germany industrial and economic power had grown greatly after 1870 and from the mid-1890s on, the government of Wilhelm II used this period of excessive growth as a base to devote significant economic resources to building up the   Imperial German Navy   established by Admiral   Alfred von Tirpitz, in a bid to rivalry the British   Royal Navy   for world naval supremacy. As a result, both nations strove to out-build each other in terms of   capital ships. With the launch of   HMS  Dreadnought ...