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Description: Frame-breakers, or Luddites, smashing a loom. Machine-breaking was criminalized by the Parliament of the United Kingdom as early as 1721, the penalty being penal transportation, but as a result of continued opposition to mechanisation the Frame-Breaking Act 1812 made the death penalty available: see "Criminal damage in English law".
Title: FrameBreaking-1812
Credit: Original unknown, this version from http://www.learnhistory.org.uk/cpp/luddites.htm (archive)
Author: Chris Sunde; original uploader was Christopher Sunde at en.wikipedia.
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