Industrial Revolution
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The Industrial Revolution, sometimes called the First Industrial Revolution in contrast to the subsequent Second Industrial Revolution, was a transitional period of the global economy toward more wide
A Roberts loom in a weaving shed in the United Kingdom in 1835
Weaving with handlooms from William Hogarth's Industry and Idleness in 1747
John Lombe's silk mill site today in Derby, rebuilt as Derby Silk Mill
Weaver in Nuremberg, c. 1524
Second Industrial Revolution
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The Second Industrial Revolution, also known as the Technological Revolution, was a phase of rapid scientific discovery, standardization, mass production and industrialization from the late 19th centu
An Austrian railway in 1895
A telegraph key used to transmit text messages in Morse code
The ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, a steamboat. As the main means of trans-oceanic travel for more than a century, ocean liners were essential to the transport needs of national governments, commercial enterprises and the general public.
A diagram of the Bessemer converter. Air blown through holes in the converter bottom creates a violent reaction in the molten pig iron that oxidizes the excess carbon, converting the pig iron to pure iron or steel, depending on the residual carbon.