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In the Victorian era the British industry thrived and new technologies developed. As railway lines extended their network, they found their way into William Turner’s oil painting Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844), Anthony Trollope’s novel, The Way We Live Now (1875) or Charles Dickens’s short story ‘The Signalman’ (1866); the steam thresher contaminated Thomas Hardy’s pastoral world in Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) just as in Edwardian times, industrially produced wa... |
