Places the British Industrial Revolution in global context, providing a fresh perspective on the relationship between technology and society.

World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth indu

This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the be

Concentrating on the Industrial Revolution as experienced in Great Britain (and, within that sphere, mainly on the early development of the engineering and chem

Historians and philosophers of technology are searching for new approaches to the study of the interaction between science and technology. New conceptual framew