A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
the steam engine gives rise to the first wave, 1780–1830. This is followed by a second wave of investments in railways and steel, 1830–1880, both depending on the steam engine, as well as other new technologies. The third wave is the era of electrification (building on Faraday’s discoveries of electromagnetic induction) and modern chemistry, 1880–1
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