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The Industrial Revolution: The Emergence of the Contemporary World

The Industrial Revolution: The Birth of the Modern World 7 Nov 2023 --- The years of the Industrial Revolution are not clearly defined, but the period spanned both the American and French Revolutions, the expansion of empires into the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and the opening of the American West. It began in the 1700s with a shift in one of humanity’s oldest necessities, the need to make cloth to protect their bodies from the elements. The textile industry was the first to be mechanized, to create modern manufacturing and shipping methods, even the first to adopt supply-side engineering, though it wasn’t yet called that. Here is the story of the Industrial Revolution, described by some historians as “…the process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing”. → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out Simon's other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Karl's Socials: Fact Fiend: https://www.youtube.com/@UCaR-e8ComPih10DqPi3sdWg Wiki Weekends: https://www.youtube.com/@UCtrzkwlnKfS9knQ-zuwYBLQ Untitled Side Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UCLJvIXTMM7bjZ5-ju8xckJg Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarlSmallwood Further Reading: https://www.britannica.com/money/topic/Industrial-Revolution https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Kay https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2023/apr/03/cotton-capital-how-slavery-made-manchester-the-worlds-first-industrial-city https://www.asme.org/about-asme/engineering-history/landmarks/70-newcomen-engine https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/science-and-technology/boulton-and-watt-engine/ https://www.corsacoal.com/about-corsa/coal-in-steelmaking/ https://steelmuseum.org/i-s-hall-of-fame/cort_henry.cfm http://www.thewaterwaystrust.org.uk/history-of-canals/#:~:text=Examples%20of%20Roman%20canals%20in,and%20the%20Bourne%2DMorton%20Canal. https://www.nationaltransporttrust.org.uk/heritage-sites/heritage-detail/ticknall-tramway https://www.dol.gov/general/aboutdol/history/chapter3 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22909590 https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/cooke-and-wheatstones/#abstractart https://www.loc.gov/collections/samuel-morse-papers/articles-and-essays/invention-of-the-telegraph/ https://www.ctemag.com/news/articles/thread-history-and-measurement https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/mccormick_hi.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

How Howdy Doody Revolutionized Children's Television Forever #sponsored

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King George VI: The Reluctant Throne

King George VI: The Reluctant Monarch 14 Dec 2023 --- Check out NordVPN and get 4 months EXTRA on a 2-year plan by going to https://nordvpn.com/bio. It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out our other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Karl's Socials: Fact Fiend: https://www.youtube.com/ @FactFiend Wiki Weekends: https://www.youtube.com/ @wikiweekends Untitled Side Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @untitledsidechannel Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarlSmallwood Further Reading: https://www.biography.com/news/edward-viii-george-v-edward-viii-difficult-relationship https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/medals/mentioned-in-despatches-mid https://www.britain-magazine.com/features/region/england/london/a-history-of-wimbledon-tennis/ https://royalcentral.co.uk/uk/looking-back-at-the-wedding-of-king-george-vi-and-queen-elizabeth-80990/ https://www.hellomagazine.com/homes/20210728118433/the-queen-childhood-home-inside-145-piccadilly/ https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a31046282/king-george-vi-stutter-speech/ https://royalcentral.co.uk/uk/george-vi-the-unexpected-king-who-reshaped-the-british-monarchy-171619/ https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1227742/prince-harry-news-meghan-markle-george-v-abdication-edward-viii-warning-royal-family-spt https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/royals/george-vi https://www.fdrlibrary.org/documents/356632/390886/royal_kingnotestranscript.pdf/a35f77c8-7354-4284-a33b-98ca1725aa6f https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1279847/queen-elizabeth-news-VE-day-celebrations-princess-margaret-king-george-vi-royal-family-WW2 https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/news/a8451/queen-elizabeth-prince-philip-wedding/ https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1952/feb/07/jubilee.monarchy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Vito Genovese: The Mafia's Deadliest Don

Vito Genovese: The Mafia's Deadliest Don 28 Sep 2023 --- Check out Squarespace: Website Builder — http://squarespace.com/biographics — Create a Website in Minutes — Squarespace for 10% off on your first purchase of a website/domain using the code BIOGRAPHICS → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out our other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet For more biographies, check out https://www.biographics.org Check out Karl's channels: https://www.youtube.com/@UCaR-e8ComPih10DqPi3sdWg https://www.youtube.com/@UCtrzkwlnKfS9knQ-zuwYBLQ https://www.youtube.com/@UCLJvIXTMM7bjZ5-ju8xckJg Further Reading: https://books.google.ro/books?id=Ps_04cWxKz4C&q=vito+genovese+November+21,+1897&pg=PA233&redir_esc=y#v=snippet&q=vito%20genovese%20November%2021%2C%201897&f=false https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/02/15/90048380.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/02/15/90048380.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joe-Masseria https://blogs.shu.edu/nyc-history/2020/02/21/castellammarese-war/ https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/nyregion/answer-to-a-question-about-a-mobsters-death-in-coney-island.html?_r=0. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/09/17/102267077.pdf https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_s8f3/page/54/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/historyofmafia0000hawt/page/102/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/mafiaencyclopedi00sifa_0/page/186/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_s8f3/page/80/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/historyofmafia0000hawt/page/120/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/mafiaencyclopedi00sifa_0/page/186/mode/2up?view=theater https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/02/15/90048380.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 https://allthatsinteresting.com/vito-genovese https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/02/15/90048380.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 https://www.history.com/news/what-was-operation-underworld https://www.thoughtco.com/charles-lucky-luciano-971950 https://nj1015.com/the-story-of-willie-moretti-one-of-njs-most-infamous-mobsters/ https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/10/10/89967397.pdf https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_s8f3/page/108/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/historyofmafia0000hawt/page/120/mode/2up?view=theater https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/02/15/90048380.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/11/apalachin-meeting-on-this-day-in-1957-the-fbi-finally-had-to-admit-that-the-mafia-existed.html https://archive.org/details/mafiaencyclopedi00sifa_0/page/186/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/mafiaencyclopedi00sifa_0/page/186/mode/2up?view=theater https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/04/18/80770381.pdf Nigel Cawthorne - The History of the Mafia Carl Sifakis - The Mafia Encyclopedia Selwyn Raab - Five Families New York Times archive (subscription needed) Crime Magazine - https://web.archive.org/web/20110825074500/http://crimemagazine.com/hunting-down-vito-genovese-wwii-italy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

David Ben-Gurion: Founding Father of Israel

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