Age of Invention: Leveraged Philanthropy
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The remarkable possibilities of the Victorian-style Guarantee Fund
You’re reading Age of Invention, my newsletter on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the history of innovation. This edition went out to over 7,600 people. You can sign up here: This week I’ve been chasing a lot of disparate research threads. I’ll be writing them up in the weeks to come. But in the meantime I’d like to discuss how it was that the Victorians managed to put together such gigantic events like the Great Exhibition of 1851 — all without government funds. As I’ve mentioned before, exhibitions of industry were not just celebrations of technological progress, but…
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