The steam engine, railroad track and locomotives, steamships, and new urban system of gas supply and solid and liquid waste disposal all depended on iron for their construction. ... By the 1850s most of today's railway network in Britain was already in place, and entrepreneurs found new foreign markets for their locomotives and tracks in India and Latin America. ... The many physical dangers inherent in the early factories might include working in mills with temperatures of more than 80 degrees, inhaling dust from the textile fibers, and injury of death from fast-moving, unsafe machinery....

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As assets and responsibilities mounted, the merchants, who had come out as supplicants bearing gifts to local princes for an inside track on trade, gradually became soldiers, and then became local rulers themselves. ... "Two monsoons are the age of a man" ran a gloomy company saying, and many a company man did not survive his first six months of punishing heat and dust. ...

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