I recommend you read one or two of these overview pieces, but I do not recommend any of them more strongly than the others. They are all are good: the Abramovitz article is a classic, while Allen and Mokyr are two of the most prominent active economic historians of technical change.

Abramovitz, Moses, "Catching Up, Forging Ahead, and Falling Behind," Journal of Economic History, vol. 46 no. 2 (1986), pp. 385-406.

Allen, Robert. The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective.
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009. Esp. ch. 7, "The Steam Engine," pp. 156-81.

Allen, Robert, "Technology", in The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, 2e, R. Floud, J. Humphries, and P. Johnson eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), vol. 1, ch. 7, pp. 292-320.

Mokyr, Joel, "The Contribution of Economic History to the Study of Innovation and Technical Change: 1750-1914," Ch. 2 in Handbook of the Economics of Innovation, vol. 1, Bronwyn Hall and Nathan Rosenberg, eds (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2010), pp. 11-50.

Mokyr, Joel. The Lever of Riches. Technological Creativity and Economic Progress.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Esp. chs. 7 "Understanding Technological Progress" pp. 151-92, 10 "The Industrial Revolution: Britain and Europe" pp. 239-69, and 11 "Evolution and the Dynamics of Technological Change" pp. 273-99.

These are some of the articles used in preparing the lecture, which will give you greater depth on (or, perhaps, clearer explanations of) some of the topics covered. Some of these are repeated among the seminar readings.

Allen, Robert, "Collective Invention," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 4 (1983), pp. 1-24.

Bakker, Gerben, Nicholas Crafts, and Pieter Woltjer, "A Vision of the Growth Process in a Technologically Progressive Economy," Warwick Economics Research Paper Series, no. 1099, Dec. 2015. There is now a newer, revised version of this paper in circulation.

Bardini, Carlo, "Without Coal in the Age of Steam: A Factor-Endowment Explanation of the Italian Industrial Lag Before World War I," Journal of Economic History, vol. 57 no. 3 (1997), pp. 633-53.

Comin, Diego, and Marti Mestieri, "If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why Has Income Diverged?" American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, vol. 10, no. 3 (2018), pp. 137-78.

Cox, Gary, "Patent disclosure and England's early industrial revolution," European Review of Economic History, vol. 24, no. 3 (August 2020), pp. 447-67.

Crafts, Nick, "Steam as a General Purpose Technology: A Growth Accounting Perspective," Economic Journal, vol. 114 (2004), pp. 338-51.

Crafts, Nicholas, "Macroinventions, Economic Growth, and 'Industrial Revolution' in Britain and France," Economic History Review, nol. 48 no. 3 (1995), pp. 591-8.

Dutton, H. I. The Patent System and Inventive Activity During the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1852. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984.

Leunig, Timothy, "Time is Money: A Re-Assessment of the Passenger Social Savings from Victorian British Railways," Journal of Economic History, vol. 66 no. 3 (2006), pp. 635-73.

Moser, Petra, "How Do Patent Laws Influence Innovation? Evidence from Nineteenth-Century World's Fairs," American Economic Review, vol. 95 no. 4 (2005), pp. 1214-36.

Nuvolari, Alessandro. The Making of Steam Power Technology. A Study of Technical Change during the British Industrial Revolution. Eindhoven: Eindhoven Centre for Innovation
Studies, 2004.

Nuvolari, Alessandro, Bart Verspagen, and Nick von Tunzelmann, "The early diffusion of the steam engine in Britain, 1700-1800: a reappraisal," Cliometrica, vol. 5 (2011), pp. 291-321.

Nuvolari, Alessandro, "The theory and practice of steam engineering in Britain and France, 1800-1850," Documents pour l'histoire des techniques, no. 19 (2010), pp. 177-85.

Nuvolari, Alessandro, and Bart Verspagen, "Technical choice, innovation, and British steam engineering, 1800-50," Economic History Review, vol. 62 no. 3 (2009), pp. 685-710.

Rosenberg, Nathan, and Manuel Trajtenberg, "A General-Purpose Technology at Work: The Corliss Steam Engine in the Late-Nineteenth-Century United States," Journal of Economic History, vol. 64, no. 1 (March 2004), pp. 61-99.

Selgin, George, and John Turner, "Strong Steam, Weak Patents, or the Myth of Watt's Innovation-Blocking Monopoly, Exploded," Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 54 no. 4 (Nov. 2011), pp. 841-61.

Sullivan, Richard, "England's 'Age of Invention': The Acceleration of Patents and Patentable Invention during the Industrial Revolution," Explorations in Economic History, vol. 26 (1989), pp. 424-52.

von Tunzelmann, Nicholas. Steam Power and British Industrialization to 1860.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1978.

Wright, Gavin, "The Origins of American Industrial Success, 1879-1940," American Economic Review, vol. 80 no. 4 (1990), pp. 651-68.