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See the original inventions and machines that sparked the industrial revolution and made the United States an empire. National Museum of Industrial History nmih.org
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0:00 Welcome to the museum
1:02 Portable Steam Engine
3:00 Electric Motor Repair Shop
3:32 Rockefeller Center Construction Photo
4:34 1876 Centennial Exposition (Philadelphia)
5:04 How the Line Shaft changed everything
5:30 Corliss Rotative Beam "Centennial" Engine
5:57 Sights at the fair
7:39 Pedal-driven woodworking machines
8:38 Oldest surviving refrigeration compressor
10:36 115-ton Corliss Steam Engine
11:56 First screw-making machine
12:41 Multi-speed drill press
13:36 Cutaway of a steam boiler
14:20 Oldest surviving internal combustion engine
15:04 Top cap (pattern) of a blast furnace
15:26 Making steel products
16:03 Steel engineer Mahesh Vyas
18:50 "Pig" iron ingots
19:48 Hanging locker (comfort) room
20:21 Bethlehem steel built a ship a day in WWII
21:05 Silk moth produces 1,000 yds in 1 cocoon
22:41 Programmable loom: first binary system
24:52 Braider
26:20 Invention of propane
27:19 Vast inventory of artifacts