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To: Taro who wrote (314744)	12/9/2006 6:09:12 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573513

I think you will find you are about 100 years off. Look at it this way, the steam engine, especially the Watt engine, is generally considered to be the driver of the Industrial Revolution. And that was the mid-1700s. Given that it took several decades to really get started, early 1800s at the latest. Babbage did his work around the mid-1800s, and the Industrial Revolution was in full swing by then, and had moved into the second phase with steam ships, trains and such.