The term 'Industrial Revolution' was first used by

The term ‘Industrial Revolution’ was first used by

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J. A. Blanqui

T. S. Ashton

Arnold Toynbee

R. H. Tawney

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The term ‘Industrial Revolution’ is widely credited to have been first used by French economist and socialist, Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui.

Blanqui reportedly used the term in 1837. While Arnold Toynbee later popularized the term through his lectures in the late 19th century, giving it academic prominence, Blanqui is often cited as the first to coin it.

Arnold Toynbee’s lectures on the topic, delivered in the early 1880s and published posthumously, greatly contributed to the widespread adoption and understanding of the term ‘Industrial Revolution’. However, the question asks who used it first.

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