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“By now there were whole new Industrial Revolutions going on in the Low Earths; the British seemed to have the building of steam engines…

— Stephen Baxter

“those parts of the British Isles without the advantage of coal deposits or ports, industrialization was as handicapped as in other countries.”

— Thomas Sowell

“There had previously, such as in Rome and the Netherlands, been growth over one or two centuries but this earlier growth was based on…

— Edward A. Hudson

When the Industrial Revolution started, the amount of carbon sitting underneath Britain in the form of coal was as big as the amount of…

— David J. C. MacKay

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

— Margaret Heffernan

“I, the British Empire began as a primarily economic phenomenon, its growth powered by commerce and consumerism. The demand for sugar drew merchants tot…

— Niall Ferguson

The drive to scale in almost every endeavor. The British went very large scale in ship building and a few other industries. Their steel…

— Charles R. Morris

London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank, and no apple-room, and…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

“England achieved the breakthrough to growth. England’s growth followed from agricultural advances which increased incomes sufficiently that people started to demand more manufactured goods.”

— Edward A. Hudson

“The rise of a British iron and steel industry was intertwined with the development of coal mining.”

— Thomas Sowell

Industrialization came to England but has since left.

— P. J. O'Rourke