Industrial age

Edmund Cartwright invented the power loom in 1785. The power loom was a steam-powered, mechanically operated version of a regular loom. It was an invention that combined threads to make cloth.

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The first practical steam engine was developed by Thomas Newcomen in the early eighteenth century. Steam was one of the driving forces behind the industrial revolution, allowing mills and other factories to be located away from rivers.

Erich Mercker Forging Steel in factory | Industrial painting

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Chrysler Corporation, 1929

1980s Reproduction Photo/Postcard from Dudley Library.

There was an incredible boom in the oil regions. A mysterious company ate one refiner after the other, pipelines after transporters and integrated the whole industry in a frictionless machine. The time was one of industrial concentration, and oil was no exception. Under the strong and inflexible leadership of John D. Rockefeller, the ubiquitous Standard Oil ate progressively almost the whole oil industry, controlling in 1900 about 90% of the refined oil production in the USA.

Ever since the term ‘Industrial Revolution’ entered our vocabulary around the turn of the 20th century, historians have been debating what that transformative period in the 18th and 19th centuries meant for the ordinary men, women and children whose backbreaking work made it possible.

The first industrial revolution

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Steampunk lamp by Machine Age Lamps, Antique Early American Factory Re-pourposed Steam Gauges and Gears

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My great-grandfather, James Lawson, was part of the British workforce in 1911.

Old mining machine. Iron County, Utah.