industrial revolution, n.Definitions

The Industrial Revolution (n.) laid ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠down premises — press, machine, railway, telegraph — whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.