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Home / Society / History / By Time Period / Eighteenth Century / Industrial Revolution
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- A History of Cotton Mills and the Industrial Revolution - Extensive excerpt from a book on the development of the textile industry in the U.S., including New England and Mississippi. Author: Narvell Strickland.
narvellstrickland1.tripod.com/cottonmillhistory2/index1.html
- A Short History of Machine Tools - Suggests that Great Britain and America were chiefly responsible for the Industrial Revolution.
www.darex.com/indurevo.htm
- 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.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.main.htm
- 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.
www.cottontimes.co.uk
- Industrial Revolution - A comprehensive entry on the Industrial Revolution frpom the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html
- Industrial Revolution - A slideshow presentation on the Industrial Revolution, including a look at inventions, labor laws, and socialism.
members.tripod.com/xu_chen/indusrevolt
- Industrial Revolution - A history project done by a secondary student in Hong Kong.
www.geocities.com/turning_world
- IRWeb: The Industrial Revolution -
tqjunior.advanced.org/4132
- Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England - by Arnold Toynbee 1884
socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/toynbee/indrev
- 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:
www.geocities.com/~woon_heritage/slater.htm
- The Industrial Revolution - Professor Gerhard Rempel, Department of History, Western New England College introduces the Industrial Revolution.
mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/industrialrev.html
- The Industrial Revolution - A brief history of what happened during this time period.
www.bergen.org/technology/indust.html
- The Industrial Revolution and the Railway System - Features a range of historical information and data including research papers, images, and extracts from the Illustrated London News.
www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/ind_rev/index.html
- The Wilkinson Family - Ironmasters - A series of illustrated historical essays about the family who played a major role in the history and economy of eighteenth century Britain, France and America.
www.iron.oakengates.com
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