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[Ivan Trundle]

On 28/02/2007, at 11:26 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:

> At 10:59 AM 28/02/2007, Glen Turner wrote:
>> Americans believe that Edison invented the light bulb and
>> that Ford invented the car.  What they mean is what we would
>> call "popularised".
>
> Or systematised and industrialised. :-)

That gong goes to the centre of the birth of the first industrial  
revolution, not America.

It took more than 100 years for systemisation and industrialisation  
to reach America (the second industrial revolution), unless my  
history books are wrong.

I know that historians are still quibbling over the pace of the  
revolution, to the extent that it might not have been one in the  
first place. Lewis Mumford, for example, believes that the industrial  
revolution began in the early Middle Ages (consider the Statute of  
Monopolies 1623 - and the patenting of inventions).

iT