Yes I inverted it to burning coal is called the industrial revolution because I think it’s neat way to look at it.

I’m thinking through the history of energy: We burned wood. Then we burned coal. Then we burned oil. Then we burned atoms.

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    Robber barons were in many ways also tied to coal.

    Robber barons are just a more evocative way of framing the period, similar to calling it the Gilded Age, but all the terms are roughly talking about the same time period.