Industrial Revolution Gallery

Telegraph poles following the transcontinental railroad

Linemen stringing telegraph wire beside the transcontinental railroad on the Great Plains, 1860s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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B&O Railroads Tom Thumb steam locomotive, 1830

Passenger car pulled by Peter Cooper's experimental locomotive "Tom Thumb" on the B&O Railroad, 1830.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Busy telegraph office in New York City, 1860s

People sending wires at the American Telegraph Company office on Broadway at Liberty Street, New York City, 1860s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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