Hanging with History

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. To what extent does foreign trade contribute to the Industrial Revolution. There is certainly some entanglement and a weak case can be b...

27 Jul 202353min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Balloons and lighting rods. Platinum, not gold. Ceramics and Lighting. Chlorine bleach. We take a look at often neglected technologic...

13 Jul 202342min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. To what degree does technological change depend on science in the Industrial Revolution. We look at the paradigmatic cases of Steam Powe...

29 Jun 202344min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. This is one of the less intuitive ideas about the origins of the Industrial Revolution. An historically unique concentration of skilled ...

15 Jun 202325min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We explore a couple 100 year cycles to move from Enlightenment ideas to practical products cheap and reliable enough for a large market t...

1 Jun 202331min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The British Enlightenment was slightly different in character from the French Enlightenment. Britain had already accomplished many of th...

18 Mai 202329min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. During the enlightenment there are profound differences of opinion. But there is a sense that human progress and social progress for the...

4 Mai 202326min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We look at the destructive forces that hold back all societies from achieving the miracle - modern economic growth. There are two negati...

20 Apr 202322min