Sentence examples for age of industrial from inspiring English sources

His pictures for the 20 books of the Ladybird People at Work series form a complete visual record of British industry in the early 1960s – an age of industrial prosperity where potteries, coalmines and car manufacture were flourishing, while obliging porters carried suitcases at railway stations and the only equipment a smiling customs officer required was a torch to shine into ladies' handbags.

Professor Lean is currently researching a project titled "Manufacturing Modernity: Chen Diexian, a Chinese Man-of-Letters in an Age of Industrial Capitalism," which examines the cultural and intellectual dimensions of industrialization by focusing on the practices and writings of polymath Chen Diexian, a professional writer/editor, science enthusiast, and pharmaceutical industrialist.

Sweat, which follows a group of Pennsylvania steelworkers in an age of industrial decline, amplifies the voices of those who feel abandoned by the American dream.

The solid, powerful men toiling for the railroads in Benton's "Ten Pound Hammer and Lewiss's "Above the Yards, Weehawken" evoke a long-gone age of industrial might.

That meant chugging down the middle of the 150-foot wide, 12-foot-deep ditch that in its heyday transformed New York and the nation, ushering in an age of industrial and economic power.

Instead of being a decorative placebo for urban angst, land art would, if anything, aggravate it, by frankly displaying what had become of the natural world in the age of industrial junk.

Notwithstanding the fact that Theresa May didn't get jeered this year (it was such a surprise, some newspapers thought the lack of boos to be newsworthy), the expectation of such a performance only serves to confirm to the Police Federation's critics that it is a dinosaur-like organisation stuck in the dark ages of industrial relations.

People like that were often treated like dirt during the early Gilded Age days of industrial capitalism in America; that situation was corrected by an expanded federal government, and Marty Bannon was the beneficiary.

The age of American industrial brewing is over.

Everybody knows the marquee names from that golden age of American industrial design: George Nelson, the Eameses, Raymond Loewy.

He hopes that "the twentieth-century fling with suburban living will look, just like the brief age of the industrial city, more like an aberration than a trend".