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Industrial Revolution

France · Science / Technology. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1799

Louis-Guillaumeo Otto6 July 1799

Science / Technology

The earliest recorded use of the term "Industrial Revolution" seems to have been in a letter written by French envoy Louis-Guillaume Otto, announcing that France had entered the race to industrialise

Names involved

Louis-Guillaumeo Otto

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