Industrial Incident Aficionado Mugs

'Bob, I was just trying to get you on the phone to see what all that noise outside was about.'

The first car accident.

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

Motivation to work

'Probably giving evidence at some sort of industrial tribunal....heh!'

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

The hall of bad ideas.

Tata: Goodbuy or Goodbye?

U.S. Manufacturing - Good News & Bad News

"You know, it really wasn’t that bad."

"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.

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

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

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

Artist in industrial environment paints a butterfly.

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

'I wish McWit would lead a life of quiet desperation.'

'I need the welder to fix the guard on that pump.'

Factory Smoke

Lightbulb Maker

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

'Why have you joined so many unions?'-'More chance to go on strike.'

Surgical Appliance Factory

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

'Paramedic' 'Doctor' 'Clean underpants man'

"And this, gentlemen, is what one of our typical American workers looks before he gets fired!"

"I thought that open-hearth furnace was a little too open."

Sibling rivalry (large scale division).

"One day son this will all be the banks."

'I'm sorry, Jimmy, but your father and I don't need any heavy industrial equipment.'

'You appear to have a major industrial complex.'

An Industrial Inferiority Complex. '... Nobody likes me ... other industries are better than me ... I'm only slightly neurotic.'