Age of Invention: Outdoing the Ancients

You’re reading Age of Invention, my newsletter on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the history of innovation. This edition went out to over 25,000 subscribers. To support my work, you can upgrade your subscription here:Subscribe nowI’m still working away on the blockbuster post I alluded to last time, but in the meantime would like to share a few interesting things that took my notice while researching.One of these is a list from 1715 of inventions that had never been known to...