book
The New Lunar Society: From Enlightenment to Industrial Revolution
by David Mindell
innovation historycollaborationindustrial revolutionintellectual networks
The New Lunar Society examines how a remarkable group of 18th-century innovators in Birmingham—including Erasmus Darwin, Josiah Wedgwood, and James Watt—created an informal network that drove the innovations powering the Industrial Revolution. David Mindell reveals how their model of cross-disciplinary collaboration and intellectual exchange transformed the world.
Essential reading for understanding how innovation ecosystems work. The parallels to today's AI revolution are striking—small groups of curious minds, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the power of intellectual networks to drive technological transformation.