Age of Invention: All Fired Up

You’re reading Age of Invention, my newsletter on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the history of innovation, which goes out to over 42,000 people. To stay tuned and support the project, subscribe here:Subscribe nowPreviously, we looked at the many English attempts from the 1570s through to the 1630s to invent a smokeless kiln for drying malt — the main ingredient of ale and beer. This post was supposed to be the next part of that story, when we’d look at the technology that e...