Industrial Revolution Enthusiast Mugs

Thameside Warehousing Area

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

'What did we do before China made everything?'

'You can just forget about the cake.'

Motivation to work

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

The Uber Ride of Paul Revere

'Well, if he can't be a Minuteman, he can be a minutedog.'

Lenin, Anticipating His Arrival at Finland Station, Sees His Baggage Taken Off at Beloostrov.

Will rule with iron fist for food.

The wine-shop

"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

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." It's okay for a first draft, Thomas, but it'll be much better if you make it rhyme!

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

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.

"We can't go on, year after year, reliving the French revolution."

"No taxation without representation!"

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

"How did they become our leaders, Dad? There are so many more of us. What's stopping us from charging them and throwing them out of society for good?"

Declaration of Independence. Legend has it that John Hancock signed his name extra large to annoy King George. The quill must have come from a mocking bird!

Railway 'King' George Hudson

Memorials of The Great Exhibition - 1851. No. IV. - Wonderful objects.

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

Santa Confronts the Industrial Age.

"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."

Cuban Revolution.