machine age
Automation's historical period
The machine age refers to the period beginning in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when machines and mechanical power transformed industry, transportation, and daily life.
It evokes images of factories, assembly lines, steam engines, and the belief that technology would solve human problems.
The term often carries a nostalgic or historical flavor, distinguishing that era of heavy industry from today's digital or information age.
His grandfather worked the machine age, when steel mills ran day and night.
- FuturismArt glorifying technology and speed
- millGrain-crushing facility
- factory floorManufacturing workspace area
- Industrial RevolutionEra of mechanized production
- dynamoMotion-to-electricity converter
factory · steel mill · Fritz Lang · tin man · Charlie Chaplin · World War I · streamlining · Radio · smokestacks · automation · electricity · steam · industrialism · innovation · smoke and mirrors · progress · labor · punch clock
- Industrial Imageryfactories, smokestacks, assembly lines, gears, pipes
- industrializationfactory, industrial revolution, Industrial Revolution, factories, manufacturing
- Art Decoart deco, sunburst, sunbursts, chevron, zigzag
- design stylesart deco, Art Nouveau, art nouveau, Bauhaus, minimalism
- Futurismjetpacks, holograms, robots, androids, cyborgs
- modernist designBauhaus, minimalism, functionalism, geometric forms, clean lines
machine ageStone Age
Era of knapped tools
digital age · Bronze Age · information age · Iron Age · computer age
machine agecottage industry
Small home-based business
guild system · gig economy · knowledge economy · service economy
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