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A group of convicts "bush'd" in Tasmania.
prisons

Australia's First Published Dictionary Was Dedicated to 'Convict Slang'

The "flash" language reflected the makeup of the British penal colony at the time.
Matthew Taub October 7, 2019
The restored kilns in 2013.
Edinburgh, Scotland

Portobello Bottle Kilns

The last remaining bottle-shaped kilns in Scotland stand alone in an Edinburgh suburb.
skulls

Skull-Shaped Beer Steins Were Once Popular Graduation Gifts

They were part of a broader wave of adventurous stein-craft.
Matthew Taub May 3, 2019
The two well-preserved ovens virtually intact.
County Durham, England

Inkerman Beehive Coke Ovens

Rare remnants of the brick-domed ovens birthed in the Durham coalfield during the Industrial Revolution.
Waterfalls at Rouken Glen Park.
East Renfrewshire, Scotland

Rouken Glen Park Waterfalls

These semi-natural waterfalls hint at the park's Victorian-era industrial past.
Kirkaldy Testing Museum
London, England

Kirkaldy Testing Museum

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.
Gastro Obscura

Lancashire Hotpot

This “hodgepodge” of affordable ingredients fueled local laborers during the Industrial Revolution.
Old Slater Mill and Wilkinson Mill (on the left).
Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Old Slater Mill

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.
Topiary on nearby roundabout.
Lincolnshire, England

Marshall's Yard

Once the largest factory complex in all of Europe, this converted shopping center celebrates its industrial past in a big way.
A blueprint for the digester, from 1687.
food

The Instant Pot of the 1600s Was Known as 'the Digester of Bones'

The pressure cooker led directly to the invention of the steam engine.
Daniel Crown July 18, 2018
Bee
Manchester, England

The Manchester Bee

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.
Public Standards of Length at the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
London, England

Public Standards of Length

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.
Before the Industrial Revolution, beer tasted decidedly smoky.
beer

Why All Beer Once Tasted Like Smoke

Those were the days.
Jim Clarke January 15, 2018
Washington, D.C.

Navy Yard Railroad Gun

One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.
The ruins.
Washington, D.C.

Ruins of the Columbian Cannon Foundry

These recently uncovered walls are all that's left of Washington, D.C's first defense contractor.
Front of the old Tabulating Machine Co. building on 31st Street.
Washington, D.C.

The Tabulating Machine Co.

The early data processor factory founded in Washington for the 1890 U.S. Census went on to become IBM.
Stara Elektrarna.
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Stara Elektrarna (The Old Power Station)

A relic from the Industrial Revolution got a second life as a contemporary performing arts space.
water sources
Cromford, England

Cromford Mill

The world's first successful water-powered cotton mill paved the way for the factories of the British Industrial Revolution.