Age of Invention: Just Kiln Time

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 40,000 people. To stay tuned and support the project, subscribe here:Subscribe nowI had a great question in response to the last post on how coal usage first expanded in late-sixteenth-century England.If London’s brewers had made the switch to burning coal in the 1580s, heating up water via the walls of the flue, and so preventing the brew being ...