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  • In essence, this is what had occurred in Manchester, England, in the nineteenth century, when the city became one of the first capitals of the industrial revolution.†  (source)
  • There was some wine in the waterfall—by the Industrial Revolution.†  (source)
  • We won't even make it to the Industrial Revolution at this rate.†  (source)
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  • The industrial revolution was just starting up, and this new world would threaten everything people had known during the Enlightenment; at the same time, the new science and the new faith in science—including anatomical research, of course—imperiled many religious and philosophical tenets of English society in the first decades of the nineteenth century.†  (source)
  • David Landes, the eminent Harvard historian, in his magisterial book, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, explores why it was Europe that nurtured an industrial revolution, and not Asia or the Middle East.†  (source)
  • It appeared that the movie had had something to do with the Industrial Revolution.†  (source)
  • The Industrial Revolution did not just introduce the concepts of the steam engine and the rotation of nitrogen-fixing and cereal crops.†  (source)
  • America's a brave new Atomic world and the South's just beginning its Industrial Revolution.†  (source)
  • "Well, this, I guess," said Fred Kinnan, "is the anti-industrial revolution."†  (source)
  • We must not permit them to be accelerated into an industrial revolution and so destroy the first stable society on this planet.†  (source)
  • Kitsch is a product of the industrial revolution which urbanized the masses of Western Europe and America and established what is called universal literacy.†  (source)
  • Meantime, starting in this decade yet especially developing from 1885 to 1895, began the industrial revolution of the South.†  (source)
  • Like a junk heap from the Industrial Revolution, the structure exuded inhuman technological grimness and steel-bound barbarity.†  (source)
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