Molten Gallery

Trades in Regency England: charcoal burning, Jew selling

Trades in Regency England: charcoal burning, Jew selling pencils, and fishing. Worker at a charcoal pit in Furness 64, Jewish pedlar selling pencils door to door in Borrowdale 65 and man fishing on a riverbank using fish-hooks made in Carlisle 66. Woodcut engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylor's Scenes of British Wealth, in Produce, Manufacture and Commerce, John Harris, London, 1823. Isaac Taylor was an English writer, artist, engraver and inventor 1787-1865

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Bessemer converter in a steelworks

A Bessemer converter in a steelworks -- a process designed for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron, removing impurities by oxidation by blowing air through the molten iron. Date: circa 1900

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Exhibits in Dome of Discovery and Shot Tower, London

Various exhibits in the Dome of Discovery and the Shot Tower at the Festival of Britain, South Bank, London. Top left shows a reconstruction of Captain Cook's ship, Endeavour. Top right shows a tribute to Sir Isaac Newton's contributions to astronomy. Bottom left is a replica of the Greenwich time ball used by Thames shipping to check the time. Bottom right shows the interior of the Shot Tower, using silver globes to show how molten lead was dropped to form shot. Date: May 1951

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