Talk:Industrial Revolution

From RationalWiki
Jump to: navigation, search

The dates are 'roughly correct' - and there was some leapfrogging-through-adopting-current-technology. 82.44.143.26 (talk) 15:34, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

[edit] Reasons for keeping/developing

Created it off a redlink: various materials can be brought in - good old days/Middle Earth, Neolithic Revolution and Third Industrial/PostIndustrial Revolution. A bit of kiteflying (not necessarily involving lightning)82.44.143.26 (talk) 16:31, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Go say words here. ʇυzzγɔɒтqoтɒтo (talk/stalk) 19:54, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

[edit] Trains

When trains were first developed, there were arguments that going at such speeds (slightly faster than a speeding horse) would cause much damage to persons/huff the air out of their lungs/frighten animals to death etc. Would this come under historical woo (and how does it compare to modern equivalents)? 82.44.143.26 (talk) 17:59, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Personal tools
Namespaces

Variants
Actions
Navigation
Community
Tools
support