Name of Object:

The Progress of Steam: A View in White Chapel Road, 1830

Other name of the Object (second name):

Taken from Salomon's collection, Transport, Cycles, Automobiles

Location:

Paris, France

Holding Institution:

National Library of France

 About National Library of France, Paris

Date of Object:

1830

Inventory Number:

RESERVE IF-11-FOL (7)

Description:

Steam engines carried a great variety of goods in the 1830s. This English cartoon imagines the chaos the widespread use of collective and individual carbon-fuelled transport systems would bring (pollution, noise, cumbersome, etc.) to one of London's great arteries, Whitechapel Road. These vehicles provided fashionable services such as on-board coffee.

Type of Object

Print

Archival or Bibliographical Reference:

RESERVE IF-11-FOL (7)

Citation of this web page:

"The Progress of Steam: A View in White Chapel Road, 1830" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;fr;20;en

Translation by: Flaminia Baldwin

MWNF Working Number: FR 020