Sentences with phrase «first industrial revolution»

First Industrial Revolution.

They leave undiscussed the fact that the «shifted power structures» of the first industrial revolution led to, among other things, the subjugation and impoverishment of many non-European nations and peoples, or that the «new jobs» created by the second included tank commander, torpedo officer and air force bombardier, all parts of a transformation which introduced mechanized killing on a wholly unprecedented scale.

«So often, in the first industrial revolution, factories were dirty,» he says.

In the near term, it will unlock an accelerating multi-trillion-dollar shift in capital investment away from carbon - intensive coal and oil, which were the cornerstone of the first industrial revolution, into clean technologies like solar, wind, LED lighting, advanced batteries, and electric cars.

The entire history of modern civilization that started with the first industrial revolution has been enabled by the burning of fossil fuels.

«China missed the first industrial revolution, missed the computer revolution, and the biology revolution — they want to be a leader in the green revolution,» Chu says, referring to the competition that might preclude U.S. domination of the field.

Britain, it seemed, would prosper as much from Churchill's «golden age of science and machinery» as we had from the world's first Industrial Revolution.

Not exact matches

Hannah Martin, head of energy at Greenpeace UK, said: «The first day without coal in Britain since the Industrial Revolution marks a watershed in the energy transition.

This article is a first in a Fortune series on the Fourth Industrial Revolution, made in collaboration with the World Economic Forum.

Consider the industrial revolution: It didn't remake the world economy until well after the technology that powered it was first developed, Avent writes — but once it did, it took a World War and the invention of welfare to return stability to the world.

The United Kingdom, which was first to undergo the industrial revolution, saw its coal production peak in the year 1913, at 292 Mt (million metric tons).

Unlike the first and third industrial revolutions, replacement of equipment and technology will be done at a reduced rate, but it will still be about 40 to 50 percent higher than what's currently installed.

Such times have often disoriented religious believers (as during the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, or the First World War).

Tiddlywinks came to England about the time of the Industrial Revolution, when carpets, essential to playing, first became plentiful.

When organised football clubs first began to emerge in Britain, it was at the height of the industrial revolution.

The Industrial Revolution, immigration, the rapid growth of the city and seven - day work weeks first inspired the need for parks as a place of refuge.

First, the industrial revolution changed the nature of «employment» so much that comparing «unemployment» before and after it seems illogical.

, «Yeah, but they had their industrial revolution first!»

«From the Magna Carta to the first Parliament to the industrial revolution to an empire that covered the world; most of the great inventions of modern times with Britain stamped on them: the telephone; the television; the computer; penicillin; the hovercraft; radar...

He even suggests, in his characteristically unabashed way, that those companies and nations could end up igniting a second industrial revolution — one fueled by the need to undo the environmental consequences of the first.

For the first time, this study allowed researchers to analyse the effects of the climate change on the forest nutrient cycles, and states that Pyrenean forests can register these episodes chemical mark at a global scale (for instance, volcanic eruptions in remote areas) and the effects of gas emissions into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.

The first three socioeconomic revolutions were all based on things — the plow for the agrarian revolution, the motor for the industrial revolution and the computer for the information revolution.

In 2016 the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) will come to the UK for the first time; to Manchester, the historical Cottonopolis of the industrial revolution and home of wonder material Graphene.

Rapeseed oil first appeared during the Industrial Revolution, where it served as a lubricant in ships, steam engines, and other machinery.

The first two albums where amazing, soundtracks of a generation, musical masterpieces of the digital industrial revolution, this kind of sound will still go to Mars Mission.

Each escape room has the following contents: ♦ Teacher Instructions with Usage Guide and FAQ ♦ 20 Multiple Choice Questions ♦ 5 Decoders for each of the 5 Levels ♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key ♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room Important Note: Each topic utilizes the same types of puzzles American History: ♦ 13 Colonies ♦ American Heroes ♦ American Revolution ♦ American Symbols ♦ Bill of Rights ♦ Black History Month ♦ Boston Tea Party ♦ Branches of Government ♦ Christopher Columbus ♦ Civil Rights ♦ Civil War ♦ Cold War ♦ Declaration of Independence ♦ Dust Bowl ♦ First Thanksgiving ♦ French and Indian War ♦ Gilded Age ♦ Great Depression ♦ Industrial Revolution ♦ Jamestown ♦ Lewis and Clark ♦ Lost Colony of Roanoke ♦ Louisiana Purchase ♦ Martin Luther King ♦ Mexican American War ♦ Oregon Trail ♦ Plymouth Colony ♦ Progressive Era ♦ Reconstruction Era ♦ Spanish American War ♦ Texas Revolution ♦ War of 1812 ♦ Westward Expansion ♦ World War I ♦ World War II Ancient History: ♦ Ancient China ♦ Ancient Egypt ♦ Ancient Greece ♦ Ancient India ♦ Ancient Rome ♦ Ancient Mesopotamia World History: ♦ Absolute Monarchs ♦ Age of Enlightenment ♦ Aztec Empire ♦ Crusades ♦ Explorers ♦ French Revolution ♦ Inca Empire ♦ Maya Civilization ♦ Middle Ages ♦ Ottoman Empire ♦ Renaissance ♦ Titanic ♦ Vikings ♦ World War 1 ♦ World War 2

This is the first 12 lessons for an industrial revolution SOW.

For me, collaboration would mean a chance to work with master teachers in my school to devise innovative approaches to subjects like the Industrial Revolution or labor movements (I'm hardly the first to teach U.S. history!).

First I introduced the topic of the Industrial Revolution (Our unit of study is on Technology so I felt this is an era of history that needs to be taught as it changed our World).

Students have been printing models of famous inventions of the industrial revolution such as the Wright Brothers first airplane and Jethro Tull's seed drill.

Europe is enjoying a fragile peace between its own nations, which lasts up until the First World War, and it is this peace which nurtures the second industrial revolution.

In the latest installment of the Assassins creed franchise players will be thrust to the days during first European Industrial Revolution.

It released its first title Postmortem: one must die in August 2013, a short political - narrative adventure playing an agent of death who must take one life from a cast of influential and ambitious characters in a industrial - revolution, conflict - torn country.

I released my first title Postmortem: one must die in August 2013, a short political - narrative adventure playing an agent of death who must take one life from a cast of influential and ambitious characters in a industrial - revolution, conflict - torn country.

You'll experience first - hand the fun and history behind this symbolic site, a symbol of the industrial revolution, true progress and the United States of America!

The game debuted for the first time one month ago and is to be set in London during the Industrial Revolution.

These minimal compositions may look familiar today, but it helps to recall that the dawn of the 20th century was still the time when Monet obsessively rendered his water lilies and Seurat fastidiously labored over the Grand Jatte one paint dot at a time... This was a time of the industrial revolution, broad social and political changes that found their reflections in the changing pictorial and musical themes of the first decades of the 20th century.

A role the Biennale is having since its first edition in 1895, when it pinpointed the new mass movement scenario arisen after the second industrial revolution.

Comprised of works from the museum's collection, «Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney's Collection, 1900 - 1960» focuses on the first six decades of the 20th century — when life changed drastically due to two World Wars, the Industrial Revolution, economic collapse, and growing demands for civil rights.

The loom stood at the beginning of the industrial revolution; the punch card for mechanical looms was the first form of digital image storage.

Up and down the country museum collections help to define cities: the Kurt Schwitters Merzbau at the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle is a case in point; Birmingham is famous for its world class collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, Derby for the work of the first painter of the spirit of the industrial revolution, Joseph Wright of Derby; the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool has collected many outstanding works through its John Moores painting prize, the SNGMA in Edinburgh is notable for its collection of British and European Surrealism.

Similarly, the fact that our own Industrial Revolution was build on coal beds dating to the Carboniferous rather seems to suggest that no other intervening civilisation got there first!

Mercury levels in the upper layers of the ocean are up 3.4 x since the beginning of the industrial revolution, according to the first study to have done truly global measurements of marine mercury levels by taking thousands of samples around the world over half a decade.

For the first time since the Industrial Revolution began, we have an opportunity to invest in alternative sources of energy that can last as long as the Earth itself.

The environmental movement is not young, it first surfaced in the 19th after the industrial revolution

But even if you choose to doubt them, it is really the first seven that, combined, point to human activities as the only explanation of rising global temperatures since the Industrial Revolution, and the subsequent climate changes (such as ice melt and sea level rise) that have occurred due to this global warming.

By the industrial revolution, however, technology handed mankind the combination to the vault, allowing industry and science to extract ever - larger quantities of the stuff, first the rock - hard carbon, then the gooey brown stuff and finally the gases, which often accompany both the coal and the oil.

The bridge was hailed as the «Great Connector» because it provided the first efficient rail link between rich Western coal and wheat supplies and East Coast markets springing up at the height of the Industrial Revolution.

As efficiencies continue to climb, the prices of installing solar will continue to come down, making it the first electricity source since the Industrial Revolution that you will be able to own yourself.

One Friday in April, Great Britain, for the first time since the launch of the Industrial Revolution, managed to meet its power demands without burning one lump of coal.