Industrial Revolution

• The Science of Metallurgy

  Permitted the tailoring of alloy steels to industrial specifications, the science of chemistry permitted the creation of new substances, like the aniline dyes, of fundamental industrial importance, and that electricity and magnetism were harnessed in the electric dynamo and motor.
• It was the steam engine that posed the problems that led, by way of a search for a theory of steam power, to the creation of thermodynamics.
• A large refracting telescope driven by intricate clockwork to observe nebulae was as much a product of 19th-century heavy industry as were the steam locomotive and the steamship located in the Yerkes Observatory.