The first steps towards the mechanisation of shoemaking were taken during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1810, engineer Marc Isambard Brunel developed a machinery that could mass-produce nailed boots for the soldiers of the British Army. How well did he succeed? According to Brunel’s biographer Richard Beamish, the engineer was moved to develop the shoe-making machinery […]| Regency Explorer
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L’industrialisation est depuis longtemps l’un des principaux thèmes de recherche des historiens et historiennes du XIXe siècle. Cette transformation touchait tous les domaines de l’économie...| Das 19. Jahrhundert in Perspektive
Why China did not industrialise before Western Europe may be a tantalising and irresistible subject, but frankly it’s a parlour game. What remains underexplored, however, is the more tractabl…| pseudoerasmus