Industry Gallery

Telegraph key, 1860s

Civil War telegraph sending-key in working order, living history demonstration, Shiloh National Battlefield, Tennessee.
Digital photograph

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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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Great Railroad Strike workers blockade the locomotive engines at Martinsburg, West Virginia, in 1877.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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