Categories Select Category Fuel Type Animal Power Biofuels Coal Electricity Gas Nuclear Oil Solar Water Power Wind Library Objects Sector Consumption Extraction Refining Transportation Source Book Film Government Document Graph Journal Letter Newspaper Photograph Theme Culture Economics Environment Labor Law National Security Politics Time Period 1800-1850 1850-1900 1900-1950 1950-1970 1970-Present William Dean Howells describes the Corliss steam engine, American Centennial Exhibition, 1876 W. Stanley Jevons, “The Coal Question,” 1865 Ralph Waldo Emerson on steam and coal, 1860 Charles Cist Compares Cincinnati and Pittsburgh in 1841 Horse and Mule Population Statistics “Comparative Costs and Profits of Cable, Electric and Horse Railway Operation in New York City,” Street Railway Journal, 1898 “The Position of the Horse in Modern Society,” The Nation, 1872 “Influence of Railroads Upon Agriculture,” Agriculture of the United States, 1860 Horses in the City (gallery) Horses in Agriculture (gallery) Horses at War (gallery) US Imports of Whale Oil and Sperm Oil Details on the Whale Oil Trade in New Bedford, 1889 “The Whaling Interest,” Whalemen’s Shipping List and Merchants Transcript, New Bedford MA, July 2 1861 “Grand Ball Given by the Whales,” Vanity Fair, April 20, 1861 Whale Map by Matthew F. Maury, 1851 Whaling Log of Thomas Knowles, 1859 Lowell Mills Time Table, 1853 Female Millhands, Lowell Mills, Essay and Poem, 1840s McFarlin v. Essex Co., Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1852. ←Previous Page 1 … 5 6 7 8 Next Page→