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The first reference to “an industrial revolution” was made by the economist Jérome Adolphe Blanqui, head of the École de Commerce, Paris—and this was not until 1837, The expression was popularized by Arnold Toynbee in lectures in 1880.
Trevelyan, G. M., English Social History, 371 (Longmans, Green and Co., 1945).
Prof. John Cohen's lecture in this series, under the title “The Scientific Revolution and Leisure”, was published in Nature, 198, 1028 (1963).
Some interesting examples are given in The History and Development of Advertising by F. Presbrey, 70 (Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., New York, 1929).
Ref. 2, p. 521.
Translated from a letter held in the Deutsche Museum, Munich. I thank Dr. Thomas J. Carroll, of the Bendix Corporation, Maryland, for tracing this original source.
Speech delivered on, 1932, December 2, Proc. Roy. Inst., 27, 509 (1932).
For a survey of such developments and the real meaning of 'Automation, see Dr. S. Lilley's earlier lecture (Nature, 198, 1132; 1963).
Sir John Cockcroft refers to these new trends in his address entitled “Scientific Research and Technological Development and the Future of Industry” (Adv. Sci., 19, 475; 1963).
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CHERRY, C. The Scientific Revolution–and Communication. Nature 200, 308–312 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/200308a0
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