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Energy and the English Industrial Revolution (Hardcover)
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Energy and the English Industrial Revolution (Hardcover)
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The industrial revolution transformed the productive power of
societies. It did so by vastly increasing the individual
productivity, thus delivering whole populations from poverty. In
this new account by one of the world's acknowledged authorities the
central issue is not simply how the revolution began but still more
why it did not quickly end. The answer lay in the use of a new
source of energy. Pre-industrial societies had access only to very
limited energy supplies. As long as mechanical energy came
principally from human or animal muscle and heat energy from wood,
the maximum attainable level of productivity was bound to be low.
Exploitation of a new source of energy in the form of coal provided
an escape route from the constraints of an organic economy but also
brought novel dangers. Since this happened first in England, its
experience has a special fascination, though other countries
rapidly followed suit.
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