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Victoria was the railway queen: the first British monarch to board a train when she departed Slough for Paddington in 1842.

The rate of societal change and scope of consequences—led by technology and demographics—have quickened far, far beyond the glacial pace at which over 99 percent of human history unfolded.

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By far the best-known invention for James was that of the steam engine. The engine he developed would go on to define the industrial revolution and essentially change the world, still impacting ...