Yes I inverted it to burning coal is called the industrial revolution because I think it’s neat way to look at it.

I’m thinking through the history of energy: We burned wood. Then we burned coal. Then we burned oil. Then we burned atoms.

  • @marcos
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    72 months ago

    There has been a Second and Third Industrial Revolutions.

    It would be the Second one, but it’s not the oil that marks it. It’s electricity.

    • @someguy3OP
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      -12 months ago

      It would be the Second one, but it’s not the oil that marks it.

      … So it would not the be second one.

      • @marcos
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        32 months ago

        It happened at the same time, there’s no other name.