steam era
Locomotive-powered period
The steam era is the period when steam-powered engines dominated transportation and industry, roughly from the late 18th century through the mid-20th century.
The term appears most often in railroad contexts, distinguishing the age of steam locomotives from diesel and electric successors: Railway enthusiasts gather to celebrate the steam era.
Sometimes used more broadly for the entire Industrial Revolution period.
- boilerWater-heating vessel
- railroadPermanent track for trains
- rail yardTrain staging facility
- pistonReciprocating cylinder component
- wage laborWork exchanged for payment
industrialization · factory system · cotton mill · colonial expansion · locomotive · blast furnace · labor unions · Brunel · coal · coal mine · navvies · turbine · smoke stack · steamboat · trade networks · steamship · engine room · Stephenson
- steam locomotivesboiler, firebox, iron horse, tender, iron horses
- British Transportrailway, railways, canal, tram, trams
- steam trainslocomotive, boiler, firebox, tender, coal
- Transit Historystreetcars, trams, trolleys, electric trams, subway
steam eradigital age
Epoch of computerized life
information age · computer age · space age · atomic age · jet age