Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Unit 3, Discussion 2: The Preconditions for The Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850
Adam Smith, Author of "The Wealth of Nations" (1776)
Between 1750 and 1840, Great Britain was alone in experiencing the first Industrial Revolution. In this podcast I discuss what every nation first has to possess in order to experience an Industrial Revolution of its own, and what Great Britain did possess by 1750.