Machine age

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The first practical steam engine was developed by Thomas Newcomen in the early eighteenth century. Steam was one of the driving forces behind the industrial revolution, allowing mills and other factories to be located away from rivers.

Radial Drill

An article comparing Art Deco and Art Moderne styles

Machine Age Industrial Design Streamline Objects IRON SOLD Art Deco Some of our favorite Iconic Industrial re-designs here. Especially the Davenset silver beauty battery tester. Streamline "Relax - It" electric massager. Polished aluminum and soft rubber. Classic finned Pettipoint iron, in chrome and black bakelite. SOLD Quack medical bakelite "Roll a Ray" UV massager. Insane bat-wing ray-gun design Davenset battery tester in black bakelite. These are all patented or documented art deco…

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Chrome and steel magazine holder by John Waring Carpenter for McKay Co. 1933 Worlds Fair Century of Progress.

Women. Back in 1917 they were not seen very often at BASF. In fact their appearance had something of an exotic character here at the gas engine power house or at the production facilities in general. During World War One, however, it became increasingly common for women to work in place of men – although only until the men returned to their jobs. It was not until after World War Two that the notion of women in the workforce lost the character of a temporary ‘emergency measure’. The first…

The Atwater Kent radio factory, owned by Arthur Atwater Kent , was the largest maker of radios in the United States in the 1920s. This set o...

Some stuff I've had and still have That is a huge English wheel!

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Founded in 1868 by James Archdale, by 1917 the Company was making (or had made, like most of its competitors) a wide variety of machine tools, including drills, milling machine, shapers, planers ,borers, lathes, hand and power presses etc.

Edmund Cartwright invented the power loom in 1785. The power loom was a steam-powered, mechanically operated version of a regular loom. It was an invention that combined threads to make cloth.

Steampunk lamp by Machine Age Lamps, Antique Early American Factory Re-pourposed Steam Gauges and Gears

1936 Bathroom Design

Mesta Machine Company employee stands next to a molded staggered tooth gear at the company's West Homestead facility, 1913.