The Fourth Industrial Revolutions is all the buzz but I believe that it is just a hype. However, I can trace the first three industrial revolutions back to the three Uranus-Pluto conjunctions and their related inventions. 1st Industrial Revolution, the revolution of steam engine The first commercially successful steam engine was developed in 1712 by Thomas Newcomen. With inventions, much like literary works, it needs to be understood they take few years to see the light of day, and this is very close and within the influence of the conjunction aspect.  It however took many years for the power of the steam engine to be fully realized. Usually this practical employment of a groundbreaking technology happens around the oppositions of Uranus and Pluto that come after the eureka of the conjunction. By the end of the eighteenth century, the steam engine was greatly improved upon by James Watt, which expanded its range of applications, And in the beginning of the nineteenth century, we see th