Industrial Revolution Gallery

B&O Railroad's 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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Wiring New York City for electricity, 1880s

Workers testing the insulation of electric wires going in the streets of New York City, 1882.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Fulton's steamboat "Clermont" on the Hudson River

First voyage of Fulton's steamboat "Clermont" on the Hudson River, 1807.
Hand-colored halftone reproductioin of a 19th-century illustration

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