Which countries in Europe provided funding for new industries during the Industrial Revolution ?
The concept was introduced by Patrick Geddes , " Cities in Evolution " ( 1910 ) , but David Landes ' use of the term in a 1966 essay and in " The Unbound Prometheus " ( 1972 ) standardized scholarly definitions of the term , which was most intensely promoted by American historian Alfred Chandler ( 1918–2007 ) .