Industrial History Lover Gifts

'Brewers Men'

"Some day, son, all this will be yours. ... Actually, you know what? You can have it now."

Motivation to work

Idle parts

"Well..I think the old Thermograph machine I rescued from work goes a treat with our kitchen units."

"It's a mixed-use facility: retail space, low-rent housing, luxury apartments, and an area set aside for making steel."

U.S. Manufacturing - Good News & Bad News

The American Nightmare.

"Our 'Invest in American' program is saving money by buying orange safety cones from China."

'Once we switch to information processing, just imagine how much data this baby will handle.'

Memorials of The Great Exhibition - 1851. No. V. - Theatrical depression.

'Wasn't there three of you guys when we started?'

Memorials of The Great Exhibition - 1851. No. XIII. - The ladies and the police - the battle of the Crystal Palace

Coal Liquefaction Plant...Liquefied Coal Gasification Plant

'Someday, all of this liability exposure will be yours!'

Santa Confronts the Industrial Age.

The fragrance of prosperity "Think of it not as pollution, but as the fragrance of prosperity."

"Our carbon footprint has been very, very good to us."

Steel Works - 'How the devil did all this go down 7 3/8 today?'

'On this site will be erected a beautiful new twelve story drilling platform that will pump 10,000 barrels of oil a day.'

"I see that you worked as a forklift operator in India."

Artist in industrial environment paints a butterfly.

'The meek will inherit coal mine safety violations, and the human health and the death toll.'

"You threw the wrench again, didn't you?"

I believe it's all done now by a microchip in Milton Keynes.

Rose colored glasses.

'It was designed for people who don't want any visitors.'

Lightbulb Maker

'Some of you were wondering, 'what, exactly, does Smedgwick, Refining and Smelting do'?'

"I don't know why other countries won't buy our products...After all, they made them!"

Power Station

ECO gallery

"Where do you see yourself in five years time?"

Surgical Appliance Factory

'What did we do before China made everything?'