Antique E. M. Sammis, Industrial Revolution tool, cast iron reamer squeezer kitchen bar tool. Legs PAT SEP 2 1878

Antique E. M. Sammis,  Industrial Revolution tool, cast iron reamer squeezer kitchen bar tool. Legs PAT SEP 2 1878

Size: 35 x 18 x 10 cm

Industrial growth transformed world society. It produced a new class of wealthy industrialists and a prosperous middle class.

People who were born in the 1840s and 1890s would experience enormous changes in their lifetimes. Some of these changes resulted from a sweeping technological revolution. Their major source of light, for example, would change from candles, to kerosene lamps, and then to electric light bulbs. They would see their transportation evolve from walking and horse power to steam-powered locomotives, to electric trolley cars, to gasoline-powered automobiles, tools were made of cast iron so that they last for many years.