
Coalbrookdale by Night
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Colbrookdale by Night by Philip James the Lutherberg
The painter, Philip James the Lutherberg, had inadvertently painted a picture of the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The ability to have this giant fiery furnace that uses coke to make massive amounts of iron was enough to change iron smelting from a small industry into something on an industrial scale. From that can steam power and railways and trains and the fucking industrial revolution but also what that painting Colbrookdale by night depicts. That is the exact beginning of global warming.
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