Balderdash. The “English Reformation” set the Industrial Revolution BACK by two hundred years. Recent historical research has shown that a bunch of “artisan-monks” at a convent in what was eventually the heart of England’s “iron revolution” area were on the brink of inventing the production of steel. When ole Henry dissolved the monastery, the technology was lost. Imagine where we would be now, if those monks had been allowed to continue their work.
That is ironic. We really do live in a world of lost knowledge.
Link please.
The monks could not have "invented" steel. Quite good, even exceptional, steel had been made for many centuries at this time, for instance by the Romans, Indians and Japanese. It just wasn't made in quantities that allowed it to be used for purposes other than for the most part arms and armor.
What the Industrial Revolution (eventually) provided was not steel, but rather cheap steel, cheap enough that it could be used for structural purposes.