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Rags to riches always inspires anyone, and put a country in the situation, Singapore fits the bill. A tiny island nation with small land, no...

Every new technology developed brings mix of reactions. Hesitations and missed expectation formed as part of birthing pains. Same goes to ev...

A towering figure that held no crown, nor office nor led armies, yet his handling of wealth brought him influence and contributed in changin...

In 1836, then Spanish Prime Minister Juan Alvarez Mendizabal unleashed his decree that targeted the privatization of lands owned by religiou...

David Ringrose said “the way in which access to land is defined, and the social constraints imposed on its use, play a major role in the mod...

PIGS - a convenient and sarcastic abbreviation for Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain, EU’s top economic troublemakers in the early 2000s. Su...

Thomas Newcomen (1663 - 1729) introduced to the world his invention at work in 1712 in Dudley Castle. His invention inspired others to devel...

The Baptist preacher and iron monger Thomas Newcomen and his partner John Calley held their breath as they watched and waited for the beam o...

After suffering more than a decade of war and devastation in its wake, the people of Catalonia dreaded their future in the hands of their vi...

AI, binary codes, metaverse - complex jargons that would be dumbfounded if Joseph-Marie Charles aka Joseph Jacquard rose up from his grave a...

France is a major economy in Europe and in the world and much of its industries witnessed their growth during the 19th century that saw an e...

Henry Ford One of the icons of American business and automobile industry. He revolutionize the manufacturing of cars, bringing it to t...

Bessemer Converter A process that change the world. It added steam to the already ongoing industrial revolution that hit the world. It...

Yasuda Zenjiro Founded the Yasuda Zaibatsu, he came from a poor background but rose to prominence in the financial world from his mone...

Suruga Street with Echigoya in the left (Today: the Right side is occupied by the Mitsui Main Building) Japan faced an economic transf...

Matsukata Masayoshi He was the man that cemented Japan’s transformation. In an era of aggressive foreign expansion in Asia, Japan de...

Emperor Meiji Japan’s independence came under threat from the increasing presence of westerners in Asia. In 1858, the ships of Ameri...

BASF Factory (1881) She emerged as the most industrialized country by the end of the 19th century. Germany surpassed the home of the i...

Great Britain and France – a rivalry that ran for more than a half a millennium, but in the quest for industrial revolution, unfortunatel...

John Cockerill The industrial revolution changed the world. It caused a shift from people relying on farming in the countryside to wor...