TY - JOUR AU1 - Singhal, Kalyan AU2 - Singhal, Jaya AB - Long‐term vision depends on history, and on history alone. Scholarship in technology, manufacturing, and operations management is incomplete without a knowledge of history. In chronicling the history of technology, knowledge, and manufacturing, we have traced the remarkable continuity in the evolution of humans from hominins to homo sapiens, in the migration of homo sapiens from Africa to the furthest reaches of the world, and in the rise of civilizations and industrialization driven by agriculture surplus. Technology, knowledge, and manufacturing did not and do not exist in isolation and many disciplines have addressed them in the literature. Here, we concern ourselves with human history until 1760, roughly when the Industrial Revolution began. Our companion paper, Singhal and Singhal (2022; Technology and manufacturing‐and‐service operations 1760–1945. Production and Operations Management, this issue), explores the history of technology and manufacturing‐and‐service operations since the Industrial Revolution. TI - Technology, knowledge, and manufacturing before the Industrial Revolution JF - Production and Operations Management DO - 10.1111/poms.13855 DA - 2022-12-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/technology-knowledge-and-manufacturing-before-the-industrial-iX3v5XGVzx SP - 4262 EP - 4275 VL - 31 IS - 12 DP - DeepDyve ER -