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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-rea... > They did not invent a machine to destroy technology, but they knew how to use one. In Yorkshire, they attacked frames with massive sledgehammers they called “Great Enoch,” after a local blacksmith who had manufactured both the hammers and many of the machines they intended to destroy. “Enoch made them,” they declared, “Enoch shall break them.” ... And another reference for the phrase... https://www.nigeltyas.co.uk/nigel-tyas-news/post/enoch-the-power-hammer.html https://www.nigeltyas.co.uk/nigel-tyas-news/post/enoch-the-p... > And here’s the funny thing. The weapons they reached for to wield and smash the machines were sledge hammers made by ... the Taylor brothers of Marsden. This irony was not lost on the Luddites and as they swung ‘Enoch’s hammers’ to damage his hated machines they cried: “Enoch made them, and Enoch shall break them”.