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.

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    3 months ago

    At least in the USA, it is known as the Robber Barron period as the extremely wealthy monopolized everything.

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      3 months ago

      Robber barons were in many ways also tied to coal.

      Robber barons are just a more evocative way of framing the period compared to the dry Industrial Revolution term, similar to calling it the Gilded Age, but all the terms are roughly talking about the same time period.