The settlement of Ironbridge is celebrated as a symbol of the dawn of the industrial age, the technique of smelting iron with coke being perfected close by. The Iron Bridge (1780), from which the settlement takes its name, was the first of its kind built from cast iron. Shropshire, England.
Winter ice melts around an old stone bridge over the Mississippi River at Packenham. Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
Meech Creek cascades around the abandoned mill of prominent Canadian inventor and entrepreneur, Thomas L. Willson (1860-1915). Here Wilson experimented with the condensing of phosphoric acid in an ill-fated busies venture to manufacture fertilisers. Gatineau Provincial Park, Quebec, Canada.
