Help needed with the Cloud ...

I'm writing a piece on cloud computing and I'm stuck on a particular analogy. I need to know who invented the "industrial revolution" and who actually first coined the phrase?

Also, I'm still looking for a short and catchy definition for the "industrial revolution" which explains everything in a single sentence rather than requiring me to read several volumes of enlightened historical writings.

Come on people, it has been over two hundred years now. Surely we've got this one nailed down to 140 characters or less.

FUD ... 1888 stylie.

I've been recently reading about the A/C (Westinghouse) vs D/C (Edison) wars of 1888. As usual it was a bitter struggle over which technology was better with D/C being the incumbent and A/C being the new upstart.

Now we've seen lots of FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) about the open source world, sometimes subtle and sometimes blatant. Back then subtle was not part of the vocabulary.

Electrocuting people's pets (apparently often stolen) to provide evidence that A/C was dangerous. FUD on an unprecedented level with the mass circulation of leaflets making deadly claims about A/C. Newspaper articles demanding that A/C was outlawed.

Incredible.