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Looking for online biographies of
important people of the Industrial Revolution? Check
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of the Industrial Revolution to find
lots of more resources.
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- Easier - An
industrial revolution occurs when people move from
living and working on farms to working in factories
and living in cities. This occurred in North
American in the late 1800s and early 1900s. This
movement had both positive and negative effects on
people. More, better, and inexpensive goods,
transportation, and communication were possible. On
the other hand, industry also brought pollution,
child labor issues, and crowded cities.
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- Harder - In the
histories of nations, innovations in technology
have sometimes occurred at such a rapid pace that
the era became known as an industrial revolution.
The first Industrial Revolution occurred in Great
Britain between 1750 and 1830. Developments there
moved the country from a largely rural population
that made its livelihood almost entirely from
agriculture to a town-centered society that was
increasingly engaged in factory manufacture. Later
in the 19th century, similar revolutionary
transformations occurred in other European nations
and the United States. The main effects were not
felt in countries like Russia and Japan until the
20th century. In other countries these
transformational developments are only now
occurring or still lie in the future.
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- Age
of Industry by N. B. Mautz, University
of Evansville
- http://history.evansville.net/industry.html
- This comprehensive website links to online
resources for the Industrial Revolution.
- Another Comprehensive Resource:
- 2) Industrial Revolution from the Internet
Modern History Sourcebook
- http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html#The
Industrial Revolution
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- Inventors
of the Industrial Revolution
- http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/inventor/ind-rev-open.htm
- Click on the 'Next' button, to lead yourself
through an online presentation that summarizes the
technological developments of the Industrial
Revolution.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Industrial Revolution (1700 - Present)
http://www.neo-tech.com/businessmen/part6.html
- 3) Steam Engine from Encarta
Encyclopedia
- http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=761554687
- 4) Two Countries That Invented The Industrial
Revolution by C. Anderson
- http://www.darex.com/indurevo.htm
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- Rise
of Industrial America (1876-1900) from the
Library of Congress
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/riseof.html
- In the decades following the Civil War, the
United States emerged as an industrial giant.
- Not-To-Be-Missed Sections:
- 2) City Life in the Late 19th Century
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/city/city.html
- 3) Rural Life in the Late 19th Century
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/rural/rural.html
- 4) Work in the Late 19th Century
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/work/work.html
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- Industrial
Revolution: A Trip To The Past
- http://members.aol.com/mhirotsu/kevin/trip2.html
- This site describes some of the advances in
machinery, art, medicine, transportation, and
industry that occurred during this time.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Fred Didnah's Industrial Age at BBC
Education
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/dibnah/dibnah99/
- 3) Industrial Revolution by G. Rempel
- http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/industrialrev.html
- 4) Industrial Revolution (Grades 6-9) by C.
Karns
- http://web.wt.net/~mccubbin/indrev/index.html
- 5) Industrial Revolution by A. Millard
http://ragz-international.com/industrial_revolution.htm
- 6) Industrial Revolution (Online slide show) by
X. Chen http://members.tripod.com/xu_chen/indusrevolt/
- 7) Industrial Revolution: Its affects and
Consequences
- http://www.msu.edu/user/brownlow/indrev.htm
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- Websites By Kids For Kids
- Boston
Manufacturing Company
- http://web.bryant.edu/~history/h364proj/fall_99/kroner/index.htm
- This student project informs visitors of the
Boston Manufacturing Company and Lowell Mills.
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- IRWeb:
The Industrial Revolution (1998
ThinkQuest Junior Project)
- http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4132/
- This site contains information, games, and
links related to the Industrial Revolution.
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- Power
of Water and the Industrial Revolution
- http://165.29.91.7/classes/humanities/amstud/97-98/waterpwr/index.html
- This report argues that the Industrial
Revolution could never have occurred had it not
been for the power of water.
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- More Websites On The Industrial
Revolution
- Adam
Smith: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the
Wealth of Nations (1776)
- http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/adam_smith.ht
- ml
- This Scottish economist was the most
influential thinker in the history of capitalist
economics, a fact that is all the more remarkable
in that he was writing during the earliest phases
of the industrial revolution.
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- Between
A Rock and A Hard Place: American History Sweatshop
Exhibition
- http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/index.htm
- Since the dawning of the Industrial Revolution,
many generations of Americans have toiled in
sweatshops. This exhibition places the current
debate on sweatshops in the garment industry in a
historical context and explores the complex factors
that contribute to their existence today.
- Related Website:
- 2) Triangle Factory Fire http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
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- Child
Labor in America from The History Place
(1908-1912)
- http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
- This is an online archive of photographs by L.
W. Hine dealing with child labor.
- Related Website:
- 2) Child Labor (Britian) by D. Doty http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/hist8.html
- 3) Child Labour in the 19th Century http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.htm
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- Factory
System from Encarta
Encyclopedia
- http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp#s1?z=1&pg=2&ti=761553165&hs=francis+cab
- ot+lowell
- Learn about the working arrangement whereby a
number of persons cooperate to produce articles of
consumption. Some form of the factory system has
existed since ancient times.
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- Industrial
Revolution
- http://www.anglia.co.uk/angmulti/indrev/contents.html
- Here you find a huge information resource on
the Industrial Revolution from the British
perspective. The site includes includes accounts of
coal, iron and steel production.
- Related Websites on the British Industrial
Revolution:
- 2) Blackburn, Cotton and the Industrial
Revolution
- http://www.genealogy.org/~slassey/cotton.htm
- 3) Friederich Engels: Industrial Manchester,
1844
- http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1844engels.html
- 4) Industrialization and Canals: Britain
http://www.upei.ca/~rneill/topic_8.html
- 5) Industrial Revolution http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/migration/chapter3.html
- 6) Industrial Revolution: A Timeline
- http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/technology/ir/irchron.html
- 7) Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in
England by A. Toynbee, 1884
- http://www.ecn.bris.ac.uk/het/toynbee/indrev
and
- http://www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/toynbee/indrev
- 8) London Low-Life : Beggars and Cheats
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/uk/lowlife.html
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- Inland
Navigation: Connecting the New Republic
(1790-1840)
- http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/transport/front.html
- This website focuses on the transportation
revolution of the early nineteenth century
including roads, canals, steamboats and finally
railroads.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Building of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal
- http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/10c&o/10c&o.htm
- 3) Development of the Railroad Monopoly
- http://www-cse.stanford.edu/class/cs201/current/Projects/corporate-
- monopolies/development_rrmon.html
- 4) History of Route 40 and the National Road by
F. Brusca
- http://www.route40.net/history/index.htm
- 5) Railways in the 19th Century http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/railways.htm
- 6) Steamboats on the Bay http://www.cbmm.org/stroll3.htm
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- Life
of the Industrial Worker in Ninteenth-Century
England by L. Del Col
- http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/workers2.html
- Learn about the lifestyle and working
conditions in England's Industrial Revolution.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Life of the Industrial Worker in
19th-Century Britain
- http://applebutter.freeservers.com/worker/
- 3) Nineteen-Century British Public Health
Overview
- http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/health/healthov.html
- 4) Penny Magazine Online http://www.history.rochester.edu/pennymag/
- 5) Plight of Women's Work in the Early
Industrial Revolution in England and Wales
- http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson7.html
- 6) Rochdale: 19th Century Working
Conditions
- http://www.hopwood.ac.uk/heritage/local/html/milltown.htm
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- Lowell
National Historical Park from the
National Park Service
- http://www.nps.gov/lowe/home.htm
- This site preserves the history of the American
Industrial Revolution in Lowell, MA. It includes
historic cotton textile mills, trolleys, miles of
canals, gatehouses, and more.
- Not To-Be-Missed Section:
- 2) Lowell History http://www.nps.gov/lowe/loweweb/Lowell%20History/prologue.htm
- Related Website:
- 3) Factory Rules from the Handbook to
Lowell, 1848
- http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/lowell.html
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- Pioneers of
Machine-Tool Industry
- http://www.gsn.uk.com/
- his website is an introduction to innovative
machine-tool engineers of the past.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Cincinnati: The Queen City of the Machine
Tool Industry
- http://www.cinmach.com/WT2/queen.htm
- 3) Industrial Hamilton: A Trail to the Future
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/industrial/
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- Textile
Industry
- http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Textiles.htm
- This comprehensive website on the textile
industry includes information on inventors and
inventions, machines, working conditions,
biographies, and more.
- Related Websites:
- 2) The Steam Loom,1823 by R. Guest at Modern
History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1823cotton.html
- 3) Textile Factories Come to the U.S. by P. E.
Mack http://people.clemson.edu/~pammack/lec122/amir.htm
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- Trade
Union Movement
- http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TU.htm
- The move from an agrarian society into the
industrial age brought the rise of workers trade
unions.
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- Turn-of-the-Century
Child at Home
- http://nuevaschool.org/~debbie/library/cur/20c/turn/sup/home.html
- This is a bibliography of both online and
off-the-net resources on everyday life around
1900.
- Related Websites:
- 2) 19th Century American Architecture
- http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/fa267_19.html
- 3) How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the
Tenements of New York by J. A. Riis
- http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html
- 4) Touring Turn of the Century America,
Photographs from the Detroit Publishing
Co.
- at the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/dethome.html
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- Woman
of Iron by J. Gustaitis from American
History
- http://www.thehistorynet.com/AmericanHistory/articles/0495_text.htm
- In 1825, Rebecca Lukens took over her late
husband's iron mill. The company still thrives, a
testament to the management abilities of the
pioneering woman CEO.
- Related Article:
- 2) Women in the Workplace, Labor Unions from
American History http://www.thehistorynet.com/WomensHistory/articles/19967_cover.htm
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- Corporate History
- Exxon
Mobil History http://www.exxon.mobil.com/emhistory/
- History
of the Standard Oil Company by I. M.
Tarbell
- http://www.history.rochester.edu/fuels/tarbell/MAIN.HTM
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- Websites For Teachers
- Teacher
Resources at American Industrial
Revolution Unit by C. Karns (Grades 6-9)
- http://web.wt.net/~mccubbin/indrev/tcrresoures.html
- Here is a unit plan that includes lessons on
inventions, horrors of the workplace, big
business, labor, and production.
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- Create
Your Own Infomercial: Industrial Revolution
by C.L.Jones from Lesson Exchange (Grades
9-12)
- http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/1429.html
- Students will create their own inventions and
advertise in a infomercial.
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- Curriculum
Materials from the Tsongas Industrial
History Center
- http://www.uml.edu/tsongas/curr.html
- Here you can download curriculum materials in
the pdf format. They include an overview guide and
and activity booklet. These activities were
designed to be used in conjunction with a field
trip to the Lowell
National Historic Park.
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- Factory
Lesson Plan: Debate Child Labor in the Early 19th
Century
- http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Twork.htm
- Each student is given the name of a person
involved in the debate over the issue of children
working in textile factories in the early part of
the 19th century.
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- Industrial
Revolution Lesson Plan by T. Hutton.
- http://noir.usd458.k12.ks.us/tcp/stories/storyReader$215
- The student demonstrates a working knowledge of
individuals, groups, ideas, developments, and
turning points in the history of the world during
Age of Revolutions 1650-1914. The student is asked
to create a web page using HPR*TEC's
Web Worksheet Wizard .
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- 'Necessity
is the Mother of Invention' The Impact of the
Industrial Revolution on the
- World
by P Gray & M. Plunkett (Grade 6)
- http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/resrcs/lessons/62K_Necessity.pdf
- This unit will trace the Industrial Revolution
from its origins in England to its arrival in the
United States.
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