Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: What Is Child Labour?
Delves into the history of child labor, the causes, and child labor laws.
Boston College
19th Century Architecture: Mills
This site presents pictures of the architecture of different mills located in the northeastern part of the United States.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Business Tycoons
Ouline of the blooming business industry and the development of entrepreneurs, big business, and the pursuit of financial success in 19th Century America.
University of Oregon
Mapping History: American History
Interactive and animated maps and timelines of historical events and time periods in American history from pre-European times until post-World War II.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Technology and Change
Oultine of the changes in industry and technology during the 1800s, bringing tremendous growth of big business, urbanization and railroads.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Corporations and Cities
Overview of the American industrial age growth of corporations and urbanization.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: j.p. Morgan and Finance Capitalism
Overview on the rise of industry resulting in the need for investment banking, of which J. P. Morgan was a pioneer.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Cotton Promotes Slavery
A brief history of how the economic growth of the South became dependent on the work of slaves and how this solidified the unity of the southern states. Links throughout the text will take to you sites containing relevant information.
University of Groningen
American History: Essays: Anglo Amer. Colonization in Texas: Texas 1836 1848
A brief look at the declaration of independence from Mexico by Texas in 1836, the removal of restrictions on slavery, and how this dramatically increased the population and led to a much greater reliance on the cotton industry in the...
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Choate Rosemary Hall: Trade Unions
A brief description of how labor unions emerged from the Industrial Revolution.
Curated OER
Unesco: United Kingdom: Ironbridge Gorge
Ironbridge is known throughout the world as the symbol of the Industrial Revolution. It contains all the elements of progress that contributed to the rapid development of this industrial region in the 18th century, from the mines...
Curated OER
Unesco: United Kingdom: Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
Much of the landscape of Cornwall and West Devon was transformed in the 18th and early 19th centuries as a result of the rapid growth of pioneering copper and tin mining. Its deep underground mines, engine houses, foundries, new towns,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: James Watts
James Watt (19 January 1736 - 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both Britain and the world.
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Irish Fleeing Aboard Ships
What factors prompted Europeans to come to the United States in the nineteenth century? This article discusses how the Industrial Revolution in Europe and the potato famine in Ireland brought millions of people to the U.S., and...
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Uncle Sam's Lodging House Cartoon
What factors prompted Europeans to come to the United States in the nineteenth century? This article discusses how the Industrial Revolution in Europe and the potato famine in Ireland brought millions of people to the U.S., and...
Curated OER
Unesco: Spain: Vizcaya Bridge
Vizcaya Bridge straddles the mouth of the Ibaizabal estuary, west of Bilbao. It was designed by the Basque architect Alberto de Palacio and completed in 1893. The 45-m-high bridge with its span of 160 m, merges 19th-century ironworking...
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Unesco: United Kingdom: Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
Situated in north-eastern Wales, the 18 kilometre long Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal is a feat of civil engineering of the Industrial Revolution, completed in the early years of the 19th century. Covering a difficult geographical...
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Corliss Steam Engine
This essay from the University of Virginia provides an incredible graphic of the Corliss steam engine as shown at the America's Centennial Exposition, held in Philadelphia in 1876. Includes some descriptive text.
Library of Congress
Loc: American Treasures: Fulton's Submarine
This site from the American Treasures of the Library of Congress provides information on the first submarine built by Robert Fulton. The information that is provided is somewhat brief but factual, and worth checking out on the subject.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Who Am I?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a review of famous inventors and people of the Second Industrial Revolution. Activotes questions are included. There is a citation for a United Streaming video clip at the end that could be...
Library of Congress
Loc: Collectivization
This site from the Library of Congress provides information on Stalin's domestic policy of rapid industrialization and the collectivization of agriculture for the purpose of erasing all traces of capitalism that results in a totally...
Curated OER
Samuel Slater
A biography of Samuel Slater, father of the American Industrial Revolution is on this site. Pictures and links are also available.
Curated OER
Old Slater Mill
A biography of Samuel Slater, father of the American Industrial Revolution is on this site. Pictures and links are also available.
Curated OER
Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ma: Boston Manufacturing Company
This building housed the eponymous company, founded in 1813 by businessman Francis Cabot Lowell, engineer Paul Moody, and others, for the manufacture of cotton textiles. At this site the manufacture of textiles under a single roof was...