Anton Howes
Historian of innovation; writes Age of Invention on Britain’s Industrial Revolution.
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- Anton Howes is a historian of innovation.
- Howes writes mostly about the causes of Britain’s Industrial Revolution, through the lives of the people who made it happen.
- The research asks why they became innovators and which institutions they built to spread innovation.
- Howes is the author of Arts and Minds (2020), a history of the Royal Society of Arts.
Key facts
- Field
- History of innovation, from sixteenth-century alchemists to Victorian engineers1
- Writes
- Age of Invention, a Substack on the history of innovation1
- Book
- Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation (Princeton University Press, 2020)2
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