Images

Mosque at the top of Mount Sinai.

Photo of Mount Sinai near Saint Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula, taken 7 November 2009.

An 1801 oil on canvas painting, Coalbrookdale by Night, by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg. The scene captures the Bedlam furnaces at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, England. (Science Museum, London)

Entrance to La Rochelle harbour, painting by Claude Lorrain, 1631. Louvre, Paris.

Chain Tower and Saint Nicholas Tower, La Rochelle, France.

A portrait of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-59), the British engineer and key figure of the British Industrial Revolution (1760-1840). By John Horsley, c. 1870. (From The life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Civil Engineer, 1870, by Isambard...

Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon near Bristol, England. The bridge was based on a daring design by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-59). It was opened to the public in December 1864.

A 19th-century oil painting by Désiré François Laugée titled Sewing. (Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro)

An 1877 photograph by John Thomson of a child shoe black, usually a job for a pauper boy who did this to avoid the workhouse.

An early-20th-century photograph by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe of a child working in a factory alongside adults. Child labour was used extensively during the Industrial Revolution and after. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)