[muawiyah]

There were, of course, elements in the industrial revolution that were peculiar to UK, but it began in Belgium more than a century earlier.

[drpix]

You may want to check your dates (I just did). Wallonia, Belgium was the birth place of the IR on the continent but decades after England... and with much of it do to an Englishman John Cockerill.

[Publius6961]

but it began in Belgium more than a century earlier.

You're not referring to the invention of the submarine with screen doors, are you?

Ils sont Belges, alors!