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#HappyBirthday to Benjamin Franklin, born #OTD in 1706. While he’s not a key figure in industrial #history, he still managed to get mentioned in chapters 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 19, 35, and 36 of the #podcast. #BenjaminFranklin #IndustrialRevolution.
A young Émile de Girardin, from around the time he launched La Presse. This first “penny press” newspaper in France had a huge impact on the growth of mass #advertising in the #IndustrialRevolution.
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#history #businesshistory #frenchhistory
This 1839 photo of lamp manufacturer Robert Cornelius is perhaps the world’s first #selfie! It was a Daguerreotype made in Philadelphia, less than a year after the Daguerreotype #invention was announced in Paris.
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#history #photography #art #industrialrevolution
Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) wasn’t a great guy, but was an incredible #businessman. The way he adapted management for the #TransportRevolution led to big changes in the structure of modern #businesses.
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Learn more in Chapter 43 of the #podcast (follow link in bio) #history
The iconic photo of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Behind him are the massive chains for the SS Great Eastern. At 705-feet long, it was the largest ship built by the British until the 20th Century.
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#history #industrialrevolution #steamships #photography #historypodcast
By 1820, most transatlantic empires in Europe had passed (at least partial) bans on their slave trades.
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The #abolitionist movement coincided with the #industrialrevolution and the rise of #liberalism.
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#history #historypodcast #blackhistory #1619project #europeanhistory
Granville Sharp (1735-1813) was the unofficial leader of the abolitionist movement in Britain. With the London Committee, he lobbied Parliament for 2 decades to pass the Slave Trade Act of 1807, ending the transatlantic slave trade in the #BritishEmpire. #history #britishhistory
#OnThisDay 228 years ago: Slaves in Saint-Domingue gather at Bois Caïman for a secret #voodoo ceremony, kicking-off the Haitian Revolution.
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How it helped end the French slave trade in Chapter 26 of my well-timed #IndustrialRevolutions #podcast
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#history #haiti #revolutions
The 1844 uprising of the Silesian Weavers has been the subject of poems, songs, paintings, sketchings, and film.
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Learn more in Chapter 22 of the #podcast: “Industry on the Post-Napoleonic Continent” (available now)
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#history #laborhistory #industrialrevolution