The hum of labour resounded from every house; lights gleamed from the long casement windows in the attic storeys, and the whirl of wheels and noise of machinery shook the trembling walls. The Circumlocution Office2020-10-06T17:40:03+01:00Categories: The Pickwick Papers|Tags: Birmingham, Industrial Revolution, Industry, Machinery, Noise| Read More
The din of hammers, the rushing of steam, and the dead heavy clanking of engines, was the harsh music which arose from every quarter. The Circumlocution Office2020-10-06T17:14:23+01:00Categories: The Pickwick Papers|Tags: Birmingham, Industrial Revolution, Industry, Machinery, Noise| Read More
The atmosphere of those Fairy palaces was like the breath of the simoom: and their inhabitants, wasting with heat, toiled languidly in the desert. The Circumlocution Office2022-02-26T11:21:33+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Appearance (Places), Coketown, Environment, Heat, Industrial Revolution, Industry, Pollution, Wind| Read More
The piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-24T14:24:13+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Appearance (Places), Coketown, Elephants, Industrial Revolution, Industry, Machinery, Steam Engines| Read More
The clash and glare of sundry fiery Works upon the river-side, arose by night to disturb everything except the heavy and unbroken smoke that poured out of their chimneys. The Circumlocution Office2019-12-03T10:52:20+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Appearance (Places), Industry, London| Read More
A town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. The Circumlocution Office2022-11-15T20:38:28+00:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Appearance (Places), Coketown, Environment, Industrial Revolution, Industry, Machinery, Pollution| Read More
