Industrial Revolution Historian Mugs

Coal Mine Safety.

'It's one of these new phones that takes photographs.'

'Someday TVs will be in big boxes on the floor.'

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

Another Turning Point in the Industrial Revolution. Ford Motor Co. On second thought, let's put the cars on the conveyor belt.

Fossil record player.

'It says our line printer is obsolete our remote terminal is obsolete, and I'm afraid, we're obsolete.'

'Unforeseeable future site of Hainesmore Industries.'

"It's a fantastic computer! It's so old that none of today's hackers know how to hack it!"

'This is a letter opener, from the days before faxes and email. I just sold it online after I listed it as a vintage communication device.'

"It's very sweet of you to visit him. Mr. Mainframe doen't get out much since the desktops came in."

"Well, of course we married industrialists. All three of us were young and beautiful, and smokestack America looked like it would last forever."

"This car is a retro classic. Instead of a USB outlet there's a cigarette lighter."

'Just as we finally get the industrial revolution down pat, we find ourselves in the middle of the electronic revolution.'

God pulling the plug on January 1st 2000

"Some day, son, all this will be yours. Sorry."

'Yes, our phones have WIRES attached to them! We're no free-range blabbermouths in this household!'

'Someday son, all this will be yours to argue with the Environmental Protection Agency over.'

The American Nightmare.

'At last we have found 'The Land of the Obsolete Hardware','

Henry Ford

Wholesale market in Cuba

Air Pollution Threat

'U.S. Manufacturing'

'I want a scurrilous biography. If it was good enough for Getty, it will be good enough for me.'

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

"Grandma, I have to bring an antique to school. Can I borrow your flip phone?"

"Let me take you back to a dark time when all you could do with a phone was make phone calls."

"Someday, my dimwitted son, all this will belong to your sister."

'I don't know what it is. I think it's some kind of old-fashioned cell phone.'

'Someday, Son, this will all be your problem.'

'New money or old money?'

Caveman to wheel inventor: 'Nice invention - how do you boot it up?'

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

'Santa thinks desktops will come back.'