Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Humans who bore witness to the advent of steam power, the mass production of steel, electricity and the internet could not have predicted, in real time, what a profound impact those innovations would ...

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we go back in time for a historical conversation about the role patents have played with respect to innovation, and push back on the myth that patents were not ...

Some periods in our history are so transformative that they create a clear divide between the world before and after. We attribute the 18th and 19th centuries to such a period. Named the Industrial ...

“In every society, there are stabilizing Forces that protect the status quo. Some of these forces protect entrenched vested interests that might incur losses if innovations were introduced, others are ...

This lecture course traces the history of industrial design from the industrial Revolution to the current design movements based on hi-tech as well as on sustainable thinking. This class will study ...

An article by Raymond S. Solomon about the Spanish Revolution of 1936. Originally appeared in the Industrial Worker (May 2014). During the early stages of the Spanish Civil War, Spanish anarchists and ...