Images of the Industrial Revolution Images
OER PROJECT: WH / ACTIVITYIMAGES OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONUnless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Credit: “Images of the Industrial Revolution”, OER Project, https://www.oerproject.com/1Images from Denis Diderot’s EncyclopédieImage 1: Stocking loom, public domain.
OER PROJECT: WH / ACTIVITYIMAGES OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION3Image 3: Rural economy, cotton production, public domain.
OER PROJECT: WH / ACTIVITYIMAGES OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION4Image 4: Rural economy, water mill, public domain.
OER PROJECT: WH / ACTIVITYIMAGES OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION5Image 5: Letterpress printing, public domain.
OER PROJECT: WH / ACTIVITYIMAGES OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION6Images of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century industrializationImage 6: Boulton and Watt’s steam engine, 1781, from Thurston, Robert Henry. A History of the Growth of the Steam Engine. New York: D. Appleton, 1878 (p. 104). Public domain.
OER PROJECT: WH / ACTIVITYIMAGES OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION7Image 7: Reward for information about Luddites who smashed frames for mechanical knitting machines, January 1812.Luddites were skilled weavers and machine operators in Britain who were angry about the new industrial innovations taking away their livelihoods. In protest, the Luddites smashed machines like looms and frames at factories around Britain. Courtesy of the National Archives, UK, public domain.
OER PROJECT: WH / ACTIVITYIMAGES OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION8Image 8: Manufacturing heavy machinery. This woodcut shows the machine works of Richard Hartmann in Chemnitz in modern-day Germany, which manufactured heavy machinery. Hartmann was one of the most successful entrepreneurs and largest employers in the Kingdom of Saxony, 1868. Public domain.
OER PROJECT: WH / ACTIVITYIMAGES OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION9Image 9: Power loom weaving Illustration of power loom weaving, 1835. Baines, Edward. History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain. London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson, 1835. Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC BY 4.0.
OER PROJECT: WH / ACTIVITYIMAGES OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION10Image 10: Rotary press. Hoe’s six-cylinder rotary press from the 1860s. The printing plates are located on the large cylinder in the middle. From Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., The History of the Processes of Manufacture and Uses of Printing, Gas-Light, Pottery, Glass, and Iron. New York: John Bradburn, 1864. Public domain.