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Proper noun
- An era, from approximately 1880 to 1945, characterised by the rapid development and widespread use of machinery and industrial technology.
- 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 5:
- The spread of popular education in conjunction with the coming of the machine age and its concomitants, have together sufficed to create a rubber-stamped mentality. The popular Press, the cinema and the radio have resulted in the emergence of a public, the component members of which, with exceptions so rare as to be negligible, think alike and function alike.
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