Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution Links

• The Threads of Change From the Eastern-Tennessee University come notes on much of the revolutionary machinery employed during the so-called Industrial Revolution.
  
• Transportation and the expansion of America The history of various forms of transportation in America, specifically focusing on how the railroads contributed to the expansion of America.
  
• The Industrial Revolution A brief history of what happened during this time period.
  
• Steam Engine Library A collection of historical documents relating to the steam engine.
  
• Kew Bridge Steam Museum Steam engines come alive every weekend at Kew Bridge Steam Museum which houses the largest working beam engine in the world.
  
• Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England by Arnold Toynbee 1884
  
• Leeds Woollen Workers Petition From the Modern History Sourcebook: Leeds Woollen Workers Petition, 1786.
  
• IRWeb: The Industrial Revolution
  
• Cotton Times An overview of the industrial revolution in textiles, profiling workers and reformers of 18th century Britain, related events in labor history, and describing modes of transportation and living.
  
• The Industrial Revolution Professor Gerhard Rempel, Department of History, Western New England College introduces the Industrial Revolution.
  
• Child Labour in the 19th Century Features biographies and entries on reformers, supporters, laborers, working conditions, and other things related to child labor in Britain.
  
• Workers in 19th-century Britain Contains the reprinted work of "Readings in European History Since 1814," which describes the parliamentary investigation of conditions in the textile factories by Michael Sadler in 1832. The immediate effect of the investigation and the report resulted in the passage of the Act of 1833 limiting hours of employment for women and children in textile work.
  
• Industrial Revolution A comprehensive entry on the Industrial Revolution frpom the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
  
• A Short History of Machine Tools Suggests that Great Britain and America were chiefly responsible for the Industrial Revolution.
  
• Industrial Revolution A slideshow presentation on the Industrial Revolution, including a look at inventions, labor laws, and socialism.
  
• Samuel Slater It was in this mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island that Samuel Slater began the American Industrial Revolution with the construction of the first successful textile mill in 1793:
  
• Encyclopedia.com - Results for Industrial Revolution "Term usually applied to the social and economic changes that mark the transition from a stable agricultural and commercial society to a modern industrial society. Historically, it is used to refer primarily to the period in British history from c.1750 to c.1850."
  
• Industrial Revolution- Texts and Archives From Hanover comes a collection of texts, archives, and links about this period in technological development.
  
• A Trip To The Past A detailed history of the revolution.