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Bonus: Damon Binder on Economic History and the Future of Physics
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Industrial Revolution
When we think industrial revolution we often think steam engine and these urban think Manchester industrial things that happened in cities. How was the breakthrough then agriculture that then let you have this urban development or was it urban innovation that could then also be applied to these agricultural sectors? Yeah, it's an interesting question. I'm not quite sure. Usually the story of the industrial revolution is presented through things like development of the spinning Jenny which was used in weaving and of the steam engine which originally developed actually to pump water out of mines. So these innovations are clearly not actually connected to agricultural productivity increases. And so I guess we could ask what led to those things specifically because you could imagine that these actually are anticipated
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