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Age of the Engineer, 1820-1880
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The Heroic Age
Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition
Resource Descriptions
Themes
1750-1820 Enlightenment & Measurement
1800-1860 Manufacture by Machine
1820-1880 Industrial Town
1820-1880 Age of the Engineer
1870-1914 Second Industrial Revolution
1914-1939 Age of the Mass
1930-1968 Defiant Modernism
1950-1965 Design Diversity
1960-2000 Age of Ambivalence
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Clock symbolising motive power, c.1870
Model machine workshop, c.1850-80
Nasmyth steam hammer, c.1850
Harrison Power loom from the Great Exhibition, 1851
Ames gunstock lathe, 1857
Ames lock-recessing machine, 1857
Manchester: A new industrial metropolis
The rise of the American system
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The Heroic Age
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'Steam mill mad'
3
Commemorative memorabilia
4
Samuel Smiles and legends
5
Garret workshop of James Watt
6
Art in iron
7
Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition
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Conclusion
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