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Reinhold Leinfelder on “The Anthropocene”
Reinhold Leinfelder, Affiliated Carson Professor as of 2012, speaks about his research concerning the Anthropocene.
Reinhold Leinfelder, Affiliated Carson Professor as of 2012, speaks about his research concerning the Anthropocene.
Steam power became the energy source for many machines and vehicles, making it cheaper and easier to produce commodities in large amounts.
In the eighteenth century, cheap raw materials from the Americas and other emerging markets drove European world trade. The transatlantic triangular trade between Europe, Africa and America was established.
The invention of the spinning jenny in 1764 sparked a movement that would change the lives of people worldwide: the rapid mechanization of the textile industry spurred a period of economic growth.