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Rail Cleaning VanThe interior of a London South Western Railway cleaning carriage, with an industrial vacuum cleaner. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
British Topical Press Agency (1903 - 1957)Fine Art Storehouse Vintage Photo Gallery: Press Photography: British Topical Press Agency (1903 - 1957)
A Steam ShovelA steam shovel at work in the Bas Obispo Cut of the Panama Canal. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Making Buttonscirca 1909: Workers in a Birmingham button factory packaging the finished product. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Button Factorycirca 1909: Hundreds of workers punching buttons out of sheet metal in a Birmingham factory. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Rotatory Furnacecirca 1895: Siemens Rotatory furnace, for manufacturing iron and steel. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
German Steam Enginecirca 1860: A German steam engine. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Pleasley Collierycirca 1926: Work recommences at Pleasley Colliery after the General Strike. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Gasholder1903: Murdocks original gasholder, precursor to the modern gasometer. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Factory BoyA boy operates a hole punching machine in a factory workshop. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Armaments PlantInterior of the Krupp steelworks in Essen, the chief arms supplier of the German Empire. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Where Watt WorkedThe workshop of Scottish steam engineer and inventor James Watt (1736 - 1819) in Heathfield, Birmingham, where he lived from 1790 until his death. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Moving Assembly Line1913: Fords first moving assembly lines at Highland Park. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Cannon Foundrycirca 1914: The Krupp cannon foundry in Essen. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Quarriescirca 1900: The Convict Quarries, Portland. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Stop Presscirca 1855: A stop-cylinder printing machine. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Coal WhimseyAn engine drawing coal, or a coal whimsey, at the Staffordshire Collieries. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)