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Newest addition to my Industrialised Roman empire city collection this one is special however as I imagine it to be where Paris is today except that it is the Industrial Roman Equivalent.
https://t.co/C1yEwYWXZL
#art #rome #industrialrevolution
We reviewed #newtonumEngineRPG last week. This takes place in the 1750's during the #industrialrevolution, much earlier than most #steampunk #ttrpg. Character creation reflects knowldege from the time era. Brought to us by @theblackorifice here on the west coast.
The #Enlightenment & both #FrenchRevolution & #IndustrialRevolution led to what psychologist #JCFlügel termed the 'Great Masculine Renunciation' whereby men gave up their colours & dressed more soberly. #StylishSunday
#JMWTurner worked during the peak of the #IndustrialRevolution. Many #artists ignore the changing #world Turner did not! He transformed the way he painted to better capture the world as seen in his #painting 'Rain, Steam, and Speed' of 1844, and many more!
Scenes from the Great Exhibition of 1851.
#History #IndustrialRevolution #PrinceAlbert #QueenVictoria #podcasts #historypodcast
Part of 1835 plan of the then proposed #Dundee & #Arbroath #railway. This was Dundee's second railway & construction of its approach to Dundee moved the shoreline. This provided new land for building at time when Dundee was expanding due to the #Industrialrevolution #archives
1866 Drawing of the spectacular Lower Dens Mill, #Dundee with its iconic bell tower. Dundee's 19th century textile industry buildings included some amazing architecture #OldDundee #archives #industrialrevolution
Prussia led its fellow German neighbors in creating the #Zollverein, a customs union that broke down trade barriers within the German Confederation (red border). Austria did not join.
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#history #germanhistory #freetrade #industrialrevolution #historypodcast
#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
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
#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
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) was a famed #scientist, #philosopher, and co-founder of the #Unitarian denomination. For his beliefs he was targeted the #Birmingham Riot of 1791.
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#history #enlightenment #religioushistory #industrialrevolution #RenaissanceMan #religion #scientists
James Naysmith (1808-1890) made his steam hammers and pile drivers at the Bridgewater Foundry in Manchester. He was first hired by Henry Maudslay after he built a high-pressure steam engine to impress the #industrialist.
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#history #industrialrevolution #machines
Joseph Whitworth (1803-1887) was trained by Henry Maudslay and went on to make the Whitworth rifle and standardize nuts, bolts, and screws.
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#history #historypodcasts #industrialrevolution #industrialists #industrialization #inventors #inventions
Henry Maudslay (1771-1831) not only made great industrial machines, but also trained several future industrialists.
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Learn all about him in Chapter 14 of the #industrialrevolutions #podcast, available now (follow link in bio).
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#industrialrevolution #history #inventors