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Incredible photos reveal what life was like in the 19th century

More than 1,200 black and white British photos are published for the first time together. They show people dealing with flooding, factory word and the war effort.

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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 Age of Steam - Newcomen and Watt

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.

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Good for men... terrible for women: why the spoils of the Industrial Revolution weren't shared equally — BBC History Magazine

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.

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Rockefeller Standard Oil

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.

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Margaret Bourke-White. Chrysler Corporation. 1932 | MoMA

Margaret Bourke-White. Chrysler Corporation. 1932. Gelatin silver print. 12 7/8 × 9" (32.7 × 22.8 cm). Gift of James N. Rosenberg. 149.1974. © 2025 Estate of Margaret Bourke-White / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photography

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