Industrial revolution
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Science & environment: Some of Britain's ugliest industrial sites are being transformed into wildlife paradises, providing a haven for plants and animals, reports Stephen Moss.
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Britain&#39;s former industrial cities in the north of England have been transformed in recent years, with posh boutiques, trendy eateries and upmarket flats replacing grit, grime, sweat and toil.
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Comment is free: George Monbiot: Britain's future prosperity has been hardwired to rising use of transport fuels, without a thought for the supply drying up.
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The National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation today announced it will induct two IBM (NYSE: IBM) inventors who developed the first commercial hard-disk drive system, which revolutionized the computer industry more than a half century ago.
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By Llewellyn King< Guest Columnist  It's all about engineering, really. Engineers, the artists of industrial societies, make things happen. But like artists, they need patrons. They  need an assignment. Give engineers a challenge and they will produce  astounding results.
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Advancements in nanotechnology are increasingly being applied in the water-purification industry, where keeping harmful microbes out of drinking water requires nano-scale innovation. By Michael Bradbury.
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By Rourke, Chris  What an exciting 10 years of digital user experiences we have had. The extent of this evolution becomes clear when you compare today's web sites with those from Revolution'5 early days.
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Americans aren't more inventive than other people, but they innovate. A PBS documentary airing this week details how Americans create new industries with their inventions -- an additional step that makes all the difference. By Jason Silverman.
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In its golden age, Hollywood excelled at manufacturing stars, large and small. This book explains how the machine worked.
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Twenty years later, Union Carbide is still shortchanging the victims of the world&#39;s worst industrial disaster. On Dec. 3, 1984, a toxic gas leak from Union Carbide&#39;s pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, killed at least 7,000 people.
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Originally conceived for simplifying text manipulation, Perl eventually helps revolutionize the computer industry.
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By Owen, John  Owen on digital media It's often said that people overestimate change in the short term and underestimate it in the longer term.  When Revolution launched 10 years ago this month, its title caught the mood of the times perfectly.
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These days, who doesn't love high-tech, especially when it comes to communication? The Internet didn't just change the form and power of communication, it reshaped large parts of cultures around the globe.  The dot-com bust, however, threw the high-tech revolution a curve.
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The natural world was the focus of much nanotechnology and energy research. Robots, meanwhile, were learning to mimic crabs and bees.
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By Siti Syameen Md Khalili  EMPOWERED by the digital revolution, information, communications and multimedia technology users today are all content creators in their own right.
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Not too many companies that were around during the dawn of the personal computer revolution are still in business. Intel, Apple Computer, Microsoft, IBM - after them, names come to mind a little more slowly.
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By Jonathan B. Cox, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 18--Second of three reports   In China, where weavers and assemblers have cobbled together the fastest-growing major economy on Earth, the government is pushing beyond manufacturing. It wants innovation.