By the end of the Industrial Revolution, the production of cloth and fabric was a huge industry based in factories, and the UK dominated ... Several inventions made a significant difference ...

Programming details of BBC Two's Genius Of Invention season ... society into an increasingly industrial and urbanised one, Why The Industrial Revolution Happened Here explores two fascinating ...

But a surprising number have no idea these great inventions – and many more – were actually devised in the UK, a study says ... went on to become the French Revolution's most feared method ...

I recently published a book on the changing status of inventors and its implications for nineteenth-century British culture, the patent system, and the historiography of the Industrial Revolution, ...