Since jobs in the real-world draw upon several disciplines at once, STEM does the same with science, technology, engineering, and math. Lessons integrate all these disciplines, so it's, therefore, ...

Before the Industrial Revolution, making textiles was a slow process carried out by people using simple equipment, mostly in their own homes. By the end of the Industrial Revolution, the production of ...

Much of today’s technology is powered by software that developers share freely. The leading Web server software (Apache), the leading smartphone operating system (Android), and most of the code of the ...

In last month's column I began a series about the Industrial Revolution, which started about 1750 and ran until about 1850. It arrived in the United States in time for our Civil War. Its effect in the ...

Britain had a unique wage and price structure in the eighteenth century, and that structure is a key to explaining the inventions of the industrial revolution. British wages were very high by ...