Jon Coutts
@joncoutts.bsky.social
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settler theologian finishing a book on Bonhoeffer, and starting one against AI. Lifelong fan of #LFC and #Canucks. he/him 🎬 letterboxd.com/joncoutts ✍️ thissideofsunday.blogspot.com
![Wikipedia "Industrial Revolution" article, on etymology: "The earliest recorded use of "Industrial Revolution" was in 1799 by French envoy Louis-Guillaume Otto, announcing that France had entered the race to industrialise. Raymond Williams states: "The idea of a new social order based on major industrial change was clear in Southey and Owen, between 1811–18, and was implicit as early as Blake in the early 1790s and Wordsworth at the turn of the [19th] century." The term Industrial Revolution applied to technological change became more common by the 1830s, as in Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui's description in 1837 of la révolution industrielle. Friedrich Engels in The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 spoke of "an industrial revolution, a revolution which...changed the whole of civil society". His book was not translated into English until the late 19th century, and the expression did not enter everyday language till then. Credit for its popularisation is given to Arnold Toynbee, whose 1881 lectures gave a detailed account of the term."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cxikf77ced4hdpchkn4zxasv/bafkreiao236mdclw3etjgf3jutfyasvu2cwquu5wlsyqdrd2v5rgzqjro4)
