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I wonder how much of it had to do with the rise in pollution due to coal dust and soot?
by BuyMyBitcoins 3y ago
I wonder how much of it had to do with the rise in pollution due to coal dust and soot?
- MichaelZuo 3y agoMid to late 1700s was well before widespread industrialization.
- BuyMyBitcoins 3y agoI had an off by one moment while reading the article. I read 18th century as the 1800’s.
- rsynnott 3y agoIt's before widespread use of _steam power_ (that was around 1800), but the First Industrial Revolution started in the mid-18th century, and you'd already be seeing dramatic expansion of population, the economy, iron smelting, etc. The air in London or Paris would definitely have been getting noticeably worse at that point. (At some point, popular culture seems to have decided that the Industrial Revolution was personally invented by Queen Victoria or something, and it gets moved about 50 years later, but in reality by the late 18th century it was well underway).