machine age

proper noun

An era, from approximately 1880 to 1945, characterised by the rapid development and widespread use of machinery and industrial technology.

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proper nounthe machine age
  1. An era, from approximately 1880 to 1945, characterised by the rapid development and widespread use of machinery and industrial technology.
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    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.

    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
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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “machine age,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/machine%20age.

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