For many years The Discovery Channel ran a program titled How It's Made. The fascination with how everyday (and not-so-everyday) items are created or manufactured isn't new, however. The Victorians had the same curiosity, perhaps fueled in part by the fact that the Victorian era was the first true industrial age. The so-called "Industrial Revolution" dates from the late 18th century to about 1840. Thereafter, Victorian Britain (and America) considered themselves to be industrial countries.
But industrialization and factory methods of manufacturer were still new and intriguing to the average Victorian reader. The age might be industrial but thousands still lived quiet, country lives, far from the machines that cranked out buttons and needles and newspapers. Hence Victorian magazines frequently took their readers on tours of factories and businesses, both to show how items were made at the time and how these practices had changed over the last few decades or centuries.
In this section you'll find information from large-scale industries such as printing and major manufacturing, to individual businesses and cottage industries. Articles take you inside Victorian factories and around the world to see how the items that stocked the Victorian home (and ran the Victorian business) came to be.
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