When The Economist was started in 1843, the industrial revolution was ongoing, and the first trains were combining cityes. Here The Duke of Wellington’s train being prepared for departure from Liverpool to Manchester, 15 September 1830. Original artist unrecorded; reproduced Gibbon, Richard (2010) Stephenson’s Rocket and the Rainhill Trials, Oxford: Shire Books. Public Domain. Se below 2 september 1843. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Forside 1843 When The Economist was started in 1843, the industrial revolution was ongoing, and the first trains were combining cityes. Here The Duke of Wellington's train being prepared for departure from Liverpool to Manchester, 15 September 1830. Original artist unrecorded; reproduced Gibbon, Richard (2010) Stephenson's Rocket and the Rainhill Trials, Oxford: Shire Books. Public Domain. Se below 2 september 1843.