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The
California Gold Rush, 1849
Oil and Mining
Developing the
West
Types of Mining
|
Origins/Background
Information/Overviews |
The Two Countries That Invented The Industrial Revolution
Pre-Industrial United States
Overviews
England and
the United States
Growth and Transformation
Age of Industry
Summary of the Industrial Revolution
Links
Kid Info
The Industrial Revolution
Massachusetts
Studies Project
A Trip to the Past England
Cottage Industry to the Factory
Early
American Manufacturing
Samuel Slater
Slater’s
Mill
Father of the American Revolution
Old Sturbridge Village -
Life in New England before the Industrial Revolution
American's at
Work Before the Civil War
Industrial
Revolution's Effect on the Civil War
Power
of water in Industrial Revolution - Student Research Project
Writers
of the Industrial Revolution
Workers/Working conditions
The Life of the Industrial Worker in 19th-Century Britain
How the Other Half Lives
Dickenson's London
Wage
Slavery - Northern factory workers and the wage statistics in the U.S.
On the Eve
of War - Profiles U.S. economy in 1850
Holyoke
The Beginnings
of Holyoke
Map of
Canals & Industries
The Extent
and Variety of Manufacturers
Engravings
of Holyoke Buildings
Lowell's Southern Connection
Women & Work in the 19th Century - lots of links
Top
Ten Inventions
Invention Quiz
Mothers of
Invention Quiz
19th Century Inventions & Technology
Inventions
Facts & Myths
19th Century Inventions
Invention & Science
Innovative
Inventions
American
Inventors and Inventions
The American Experience |
Edison's Miracle of LIght
Edison After Forty
Thomas Alva
Edison
Thomas Edison
TELEGRAPH,
SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT & RADIO MUSEUMS
Tribute to the
Telephone Home Page
Alexander
Graham Bell's Path to the Telephone
Bell
Notebooks Project
Launch
Pad for Bell's Path to the Telephone
The American
Experience/The Telephone
The American
Experience | George Eastman: The Wizard of Photography
Science
Museum of Victorian
Science
Lateral Science
History House:
Eugenics Part I: You Can’t Keep a Good Idiot Down
History House:
Eugenics Part II: License to Breed
19th Century
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Online
America's First
Statistical Engineer - Census
Science, Technology, & Industry Links
Women in Science & Technology
Inventors
Ten Most Popular Inventors
Famous Inventors
Inventors
& Patents That Changed the World
Black Inventors
Black
Inventors
Black Inventors & Their
Inventions
Selected Patents by African American Inventors
Artifacts African American Inventors
Elija McCoy
Elijah McCoy,
Norbert Rillieux
Benjamin
Bradley
The
patents of Lewis Latimer|
Lewis Howard
Latimer
Lewis Howard
Latimer,
Lewis
Howard Latimer
John P. Parker
Granville T.
Woods
George
Washington Carver
Women Inventors
Women Inventors
Women Inventors
Mary Keis
- 1st woman to receive a patent
for a process of weaving straw with silk
or thread (hat industry)
Technology
Technology Chronology
Innovations Timeline
Technological Innovation Timeline -
Post Civil War
Timelines
1800 - 1850
1851 - 1899
Inventors/Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
- England and U.S.
Inventors of the Industrial Revolution
Technology
Gallery - Profiles the new technologies of the industrial revolution.
Includes: cotton gin, steam engine, McCormick
Reaper, telegraph, anesthesia, Sharps rifle, & the sewing machine
Guide to Inventions
- Info Please
Inventors/Inventions Links
Inventions A-Z
Inventors A-Z
African American
Inventors
National Inventors
Hall of Fame
Female Inventors
Knight's Mechanical
Dictionary - 1881
Can access listing of subjects, but cannot download info
Industrial Revolution Inventors Chart
Chemical Engineering
Timeline
Food Related
Inventions
Obscure Patents and Gadgets
Tasteful Inventions - This may need
some sourcing
World Wide
Inventions 1800's
Online Museums/Exhibits
Museum
of Plastic Artifacts - Sandretto Museum
Early Office Museum
Wild
West Tech - Home Page
Wild
West Tech - Archived Episode Description
Native American
Inventors - First Peoples' Inventions
Armor & Swift Begin Meat Packing - 1875 - 1876
Refrigerator Car Gustavus Swift
Chicago & the Meat Packing Industry - 1890
P
Chicago Meat Packing & Stock Yards Map
Ranching/Farming/Agriculture
Barbed Wire & the Water Pump - scroll down to bottom of page
windmill
History
of Barbed Wire
Barbed Wire
Barbed Wire
History
Barbed Wire
Images
Don't Fence Me
In - Table of Contents
Glidden's Patent for Barbed Wire
Devil's Rope Barbed Wire Museum
Homepage
Communication
telegraph
Mail/Postal Service
The Pony
Express
United
States starts the
Pony
Express for mail delivery 1861
Pony Express
Poetry of The Pony Express
American West -
Pony Express Information
Pony Express Home Station
History of The Pony Express
Pony Express Map
Audio narration's and dramatizations of the pony express
Mail by Rail
Oil and Mining
Developing the West
Mining and Oil Extraction
Transportation
Frontier Transportation
19th Century Transportation
Railroads of the West
Railroads of the
West
P Central
Pacific Maps
P Central
Pacific Photos
P Central
Pacific Photos - Index
Railroads West!
Transcontinental Railroad
Transcontinental Railroad -
Driving the Last Spike
Completing
the Transcontinental Railroad, 1869
TIMELINE:
Transcontinental Railroads
History of the Transcontinental Railroad - Readings
Chinese
Contribution to the Transcontinental Railroad
horseshoe curve for
railroad tracks, designed by
J. Edgar
Thompson
The Great Train
Robbery of 1870, the first train robbery.
Wagons, Stagecoaches
Road
Through the Wilderness
prairie schooner
Conestoga wagon
Prairie schooner
designed to ford streams, negotiate mountain trails
Prairie Schooners
Wagons
The Concord Coach: Picture
STAGE TRAVEL IN
AMERICA
THE OVERLAND STAGE
The Overland Trail: The Concord
Coach Page
Crossing the Plains, 1865
The Concord Coach/Wagons
Adventures of Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo Art Gallery
Western Stagecoach Travel
Stagecoach in America
Riding The Stage, 1861
Stagecoach Pony Express Stage Coach Pony Express Rider
Mule Skinners and Freight Wagons
Stagecoach Drivers Shotgun Guards
Weapons
Buffalo Hunt, 1846
Samuel Colt
History of the Colt Revolver
revolver,
Samuel
Colt and the Revolver
What Is A Revolver?
Colt Breech
Loading Revolver
Emergence of Advertising in America
Agriculture/Farming
Revolutionary Changes in Agriculture
Early Nineteenth-Century Farm
P Ralph
Wheelock's Farm, c. 1822 New England
P Another
Farm - 1872 Pennsylvania
Wheat
settled the Pacific NW.
Agriculture, Water,
and Lumber - Western States
Agricultural Inventors
Norbett
Rillieux - Sugar Refining System that revolutionized the making of sugar
(1846)
Henry Blair
- Mechanical Seed Planter (1834)
- Mechanical Corn Harvester (1836)
John Deere
Improvement In Plows
Viscount Charles Townshend’s Crop rotation
Jethro Tull
Bio
seed drill
Cyrus McCormick
McCormick Farm
Cyrus McCormick
Eli Whitney & The
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney -
Bio
Africans in America/Part 3/Eli Whitney's
Cotton Gin
Cotton gin petition
The Cotton Press
Charles Ball's
narrative: Fifty Years in Chains
Douglas Egerton on
cotton
Margaret Washington on the impact of the cotton gin
Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
The Eli Whitney Museum
Agricultural Implements
History of Agricultural Tools
- From an 1874 issue of Harpers Monthly
Barbed Wire
Barbed Wire
History
Barbed Wire
Images
Don't Fence
Me In - Table of Contents
Glidden's Patent for Barbed Wire
Devil's Rope Barbed Wire Museum
Homepage
Cotton Gin
The Sewers of Chicago
Early
Industrialization in Lowell, Massachusetts
The First Skyscraper - 1885
Chicago designed by William Le Baron Jenney
Le Baron Jenney
Profile photo & links to the buildings he designed.
Blue Morning 1909 view
New York & building of Penn Station
C. B. Brooks -
Street Sweeper (1896)
Elevators
1889 First electric elevator installed
Alexander Miles - Elevator (1888)
Overview/Timelines
Communication Technology Timeline
- from 3500 BC to 1991 - a simple chronology.
Media History Project
-
traces man's efforts at communication (verbal, written and pictorial) through 9 different periods. Just click on any of the time periods to see what happened. There's also a nice chronology with pictures of interesting events.
Timeline of Communication
Communication
Timeline 19th Century
Evolution of Communication -
Web Quest
Think Quest History
of Reaching Out
Significant Dates in Post Office History
Timeline of Photography
Dates in the History of Cultural Technologies
Books
Newspapers
Magazines
Advertising
Public Relations
adhesive postage stamps.
History of Speaking Machines
Mail/Postal Service
The Pony
Express
Mail by Boat
Mail by Rail
Pencils
Photographic Images
Sound
Thomas Edison
MORSE CODE
Office Equipment
THE PONY EXPRESS
safety pin
Shoes/Shoemaking
Lewis Temple
- Toggle Harpoon (1848)
famous people who
have used pencils
why pencils are
yellow
Pencil History
J. L.
Love - Pencil Sharpener (1897)
Pens
The Fountain
Pen
Joseph
Nicéphore Niépce first photographic image 1814
Daguerreotype 1839
Louis DaGuerre’s Daguerrotype
Daguerreotype.
History
of Photography
Magic Lantern - Slide Projector - forerunner of the modern slide projector
Sir John Frederick William
Herschel Pioneer
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Charles
Wheatstone - 1st microphone,
a primitive sound box - 1821
Telegraph
Joseph
Henry 1st electric telegraph 1831
phonograph, or
speaking machine Edison
Thomas Edison and the business of invention
A
List of Thomas Edison's Patents
The
Muckers - Edison's
Muckers Charles Batchelor and Harold Anderson
Muckers Frank Dyer, Miller Reese Hutchison, Arthur Kennelly
phonograph, or
speaking machine Edison
Samuel Morse - Short biography
Timeline of Samuel Morse
Samuel Morse invents
Morse code 1835
Samuel F. B. Morse
Telegraph and Telegraphy
History of
Morse Code and
the Phonetic Alphabets
Marconi - Simple biography
Nathan
Stubblefield
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell patents the
electric
telephone 1876
1880 - 50,000 telephone subscibers
Alexander Graham Bell’s Telephone
Alexander G. Bell
Bell's Path to the Telephone
- traces the evolution of the telephone. Drawings, technical info
Melvyl Dewey
writes the Dewey Decimal System for ordering library books 1876
History of
Office Equipment
History of the Office
Typewriter
first successful, modern
typewriter 1867
Early Typewriters
First Typewriter
Typewriter
Keyboard
How the Typewriter Got
Its Keys
Typewriter & Dime Novels
United States starts
the
Pony Express for mail delivery 1861
Pony Express
Poetry of The Pony Express
American
West - Pony Express Information
Pony Express Home Station
History of The Pony Express
Pony Express Map
Audio narration's and dramatizations of the pony express
Evolution of the Zipper
Textiles
Textile Revolution
Timeline of the Textile Industry
Whole Cloth Textile Industry
Early Industrialization
True Colors Dyes, dying
The Textile Revolution
History of Lowell
Early Industrialization in Lowell, Massachusetts
The Waltham-Lowell System |
Making Textiles |
Lowell Machine Shop
Textile Inventors/Inventions
The Flying Shuttle
The Spinning Jenny
Samuel Compton’s Spinning Mule
Richard Arkright -
Established first cotton mills
in England
Biography
Another
Profile
Arkwright’s
Water Frame
Cotton Gin
Eli
Whitney and the Cotton Gin - Student Report
Eli
Whitney and Mass Production
Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney’s Interchangeable Parts
Steam Powered Textile Inventions
Savery’s steam driven pump
Newcomen’s Steam Engine
James Watt’s Steam
Engine
Edmund Cartwright’s Power Loom
Jan
Matzeliger - Automatic Shoe Making Machine that revolutionized the
making of shoes (1883)
Norbett
Rillieux - Sugar Refining System that revolutionized the making of sugar
(1846)
W. Johnson
- Egg Beater (1884)
History of Snack and Food
Tasteful Inventions - This may need
some sourcing
Soft Drink History
500
Years of American Food
History of Kitchen Appliances
Armor & Swift Begin Meat Packing - 1875 - 1876
Refrigerator Car Gustavus Swift
Chicago & the Meat Packing Industry - 1890
P
Chicago Meat Packing & Stock Yards Map
Medicine/Health
Care/Doctoring
Medicine at the Start of the Civil War
Medicine & Health on the Lewis and Clarke Expedition
Civil War
Medicine
Civil War Medic
Morphine used in
Civil War
Women nurses -
Recruited for Civil War service
History of
Ether
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams -
First Open Heart Surgery (1893)
Elizabeth Blackwell, the
first woman to earn an MD, 1849
Patent
medicines
Health/Hygiene
The Sewers of Chicago
History of Plumbing
Plumbing in America
White House
Plumbing
Stand - Up
Bath
C. B. Brooks - Street Sweeper
(1896)
Science
Museum of Victorian
Science
Lateral Science
History House:
Eugenics Part I: You Can’t Keep a Good Idiot Down
History House:
Eugenics Part II: License to Breed
19th Century
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Online
America's First
Statistical Engineer - Census
Science, Technology, & Industry Links
Women in Science & Technology
Vacuum Cleaner Museum
History of the Vacuum Cleaner
The
History of the Washing Machine
Inventions for the Home
safety pin
W. Johnson - Egg Beater (1884)
Fabrication/Building
Steel
Henry Bessemer - The Steel Man
Carnegie Begins Steel Production - 1879
Plastic
Plastics Timeline
Museum
of Plastic Artifacts - Sandretto Museum
Charles Goodyear
invented vulcanization
of rubber.
Power
Mills &Water
Power
The History of Mills
Waterpower in Lowell
Products of the Mills |
Mill Power Drives |
Power Looms
Flash Movie of
Lowell's Canal Development:
1796-1848
Lowell's Canal System
Textiles
Textile Revolution
Timeline of the Textile Industry
Whole Cloth Textile Industry
Early Industrialization
True Colors Dyes, dying
The Textile Revolution
History of Lowell
Early Industrialization in Lowell, Massachusetts
The Waltham-Lowell System |
Making Textiles |
Lowell Machine Shop
Textile Inventors/Inventions
The Flying Shuttle
The Spinning Jenny
Samuel Compton’s Spinning Mule
Richard Arkright -
Established first cotton mills
in England
Biography
Another
Profile
Arkwright’s
Water Frame
Cotton Gin
Eli
Whitney and the Cotton Gin - Student Report
Eli
Whitney and Mass Production
Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney’s Interchangeable Parts
Steam Powered Textile Inventions
Savery’s steam driven pump
Newcomen’s Steam Engine
James Watt’s Steam
Engine
Edmund Cartwright’s Power Loom
first successful oil pipeline Erie, Pennsylvania in 1861
Baseball
The Baseball Glove
Comes to Baseball, 1875
This Day in
Baseball History
Zoos
first
American zoo opened in 1874 in Philadelphia
Battery
Timeline of Batteries
Allesandro Volta’s electric battery
Michael
Faraday’s electric generator/electricity
Thomas Edison and the business of invention
Alexander
Graham Bell’s Telephone
Electricity
History
of Electricity
Lighting
Light bulb patented 1879 by Edison
History of Lighting
Gas Lighting Patents
-1810
Incandescent Light Bulb - England
P
Sperm Oil Lamps - 1870
History
of Electricity
19th
Century Electric Lamps
One Bright Idea: Thomas Edison's Lightbulb
Nicholas Tesla
Tesla’s Coil
Nicola Tesla Links
Power
Mills &Water
Power
The History of Mills
Waterpower in Lowell
Products of the Mills |
Mill Power Drives |
Power Looms
Flash Movie of
Lowell's Canal Development:
1796-1848
Lowell's Canal System
Oil and Mining
Developing the
West
Transportation Timeline
Overview
America on
the Move
Migration
Routes, Roads & Trails
Timeline - The History of Transportation
Transportation Growth Over Time Interactive Map
Transportation Development
Questions to Ponder
National
Road 1827
National Road Milepost
Transportation Infrastructure - 1800 - 1900
Frontier Transportation
John McAdam -
Roads -macadam surfaces & importance
19th Century Transportation
Watt's Steam Revolution
History of the Steam Engine
beinning to the present day
Steam: Boats, Trains and Automobiles - improvements to
Watt's steam engine & adaptations Britain & U.S.
George Stephenson - Trains - The Rocket.
Gottlieb Daimler
-Autos -his internal combustion engine.
Another source with a Quicktime movie
P
Steam Carriages for Common Roads - from 19th Century
Scientific American about the application of steam power to
automobiles.
From Boston to
Washington, D.C., 1800
Airplanes
The Wright Brothers’ Airplane
Automobiles
Gottlieb’s Daimler’s Automobile
Rudolf Diesel’s Engine
Henry
Ford’s Mass Production Line
Balloons
balloons for military observation.
Bridges
Covered Bridges - Lots
of links
History of the Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Bridge - Great Buildings Online
Brooklyn Bridge - Profile, map.
The
Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Bridge Paper Model
Brooklyn Bridge Web Page
John A
Roebling's Son's Company Online History -
Eads Bridge - 3 Arch
Bridge - St. Louis - 1874
Eads Bridge History
Canals - Transportation
Canal Age
Transportation Canals Mass
Robert Fulton & Canal Transport Designs
The Erie Canal Illustrated
History with links
Erie Canal - Brief Histoyr
No. 36: The Erie Canal
1825 - The Erie Canal -
Painting-Opening of the Canal
History of the Erie Canal
Erie
Canal and Trade
Erie Canal
Power Point
Presentation of the Erie Canal
Daily Wage Rates
on the Erie Canal, 1845 to 1870
Traveling the Erie Canal, 1836
The Illinois and Michigan Canal
Ohio's Canals - Map
Elevators
1889 First electric elevator installed
Alexander Miles - Elevator (1888)
Food
Transportation
Refrigerator Car Gustavus Swift
Roads
John McAdam’s Road
Ships/Steamships/Submarines
First to Sail Around the World Alone, 1895-98
Robert Fulton
Fulton's Submarine - drawings and brief page of facts about this invention from
the
American Treasures of the Library of Congress.
Letter from Robert Fulton to President Washington
- Fulton writes to President Washington to suggest canal navigation between Philadelphia and Lake Erie.
Robert Fulton, Engineer and Artist - online biography of the inventor of the
steam engine, by
H. W. Dickinson.
Robert Fulton: His Life and Its Results - online biography by Robert H.
Thurston.
Robert Fulton’s Steamboat Engine
Fulton's
Submarine
More on Fulton's Sub
Railroads
U.S.
Rail Network - 1880
The History of the
First Locomotives in America
1832
Matthias Baldwin began building locomotives in Philadelphia
First Railroad B & O
Chesapeake & Ohio
History of Railroad Innovation
Transcontinental Railroad
Transcontinental Railroad
- Driving the Last Spike
Completing the
Transcontinental Railroad, 1869
TIMELINE:
Transcontinental Railroads
History of
the Transcontinental Railroad - Readings
Chinese
Contribution to the Transcontinental Railroad
horseshoe curve for
railroad tracks, designed by
J. Edgar
Thompson
The Great Train
Robbery of 1870, the first train robbery.
Railroads West!
ON THIS DAY: National
Railroad Museum
P MAPS:
Railroad Collection
MAP:
Railways of Southern States During the Civil War
Railroads in the Late 19th Century
P
Anti-Railway Poster
Providence Railway 1830
P Passenger Schedules - Tattered
But Interesting - circa 1880's
Train Robbery, 1899
RAILROAD
HISTORY
Railroad History
Encyclopedia
Smithsonian: Transportation History
Golden Years of
Transportation, History, Trivia
Surveying the Land
and Building the Railroad
The Great Train
Robbery of 1870, the first train robbery.
Train Robbery, 1899
Railroads West!
Robber Barons:
Jay Gould,
James Fisk,
& Daniel
Drew
George Pullman
-
1894: Pullman Strike,
The Pullman Strike,
Pullman Strike,
THE PULLMAN STRIKE: ITS CAUSES AND EVENTS
1877: Grand Army of
Starvation - Railroad Strike
Crash at Crush, Texas --
1896
National Railroad Museum Home Page
The National Railway Museum of Britain
www.rrhistorical.com
All Aboard!
Railroads
Steam Engine Library
Train
Gallery
Jerry's Railroad
Photo Album - Photo Archive
Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History
Museum
J. L. Toth Historic
Railroads and Railroad Museums List
The American
Experience/The Iron Road
KatyRailroad.org / Katy Railroad
Historical Society
The Katy
Railroad
United Pacific Rail
Road-History & Photos
Harvey Girls
A Harvey House Home Page: Hotels,
Lunchrooms, Restaurants in the Old West
Fred Harvey Collection
Exhibit - Welcome
"Meals by
Fred Harvey"
Wagons, Stagecoaches
Road
Through the Wilderness
prairie schooner
Conestoga wagon
Prairie schooner
designed to ford streams, negotiate mountain trails
Prairie Schooners
Wagons
The Concord Coach: Picture
STAGE TRAVEL IN
AMERICA
THE OVERLAND STAGE
The Overland Trail: The Concord
Coach Page
Crossing the Plains, 1865
The Concord Coach/Wagons
Adventures of Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo Art
Gallery
Western Stagecoach Travel
Stagecoach in
America
Riding The Stage, 1861
Stagecoach Pony Express Stage Coach Pony Express Rider
Mule Skinners and Freight Wagons
Stagecoach Drivers Shotgun Guards
Overland Trail
Pony Express
History of The Pony Express
Pony Express Map
Audio narration's and dramatizations of the pony express
Wheelwrights
Abbott Downing Company
Batteaux and 'Battoe
Men'
Canoes
Guns,
Firemarms, & Ammunition History
Buffalo Hunt, 1846
Samuel Colt
History of the Colt Revolver
revolver,
Samuel Colt and the Revolver
What Is A Revolver?
Colt Breech
Loading Revolver
John
Moses Browning
History of the Gatling Gun
Fulton's Submarine - The Turtle - War of 1812
balloons for military observation.
Weapons
- Civil War
breech loading carbine
repeating carbine
Minie balls,
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http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/ library of the steam engine
US00174465 Improvement in Telegraphy (Telephone) Alexander Graham Bell (1876) http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US00174465__
USD0011023 Statue of Liberty design Auguste Barholdi (1879) http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=USD0011023__
US00621195 Navigable balloon Ferdinand Graf Zepplin (1899) http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US00621195__
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US00002906
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US00031128 Safety Elevator E.G. Otis (1861) http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US00031128__
US00355139 Dish-Washing Machine Josephine Cochran (1886) http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US00355139__
US00533244 Alternating Current (electricity) Charles Steinmetz (1895) http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US00533244__
US00135245 Improvements in brewing beer and ale (Pasteurization) Louis Pasteur (1873) http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US00135245__
US00000117 Cylinder washing machine (early clothes washer) William Hovey (1837) http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US00000117__
US00200521 The Phonograph-(speaking machine) Thomas A Edison (1878) http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US00200521__
One Bright Idea: Thomas Edison's Lightbulb http://www.thesmokinggun.com/patent/edison1.html
US00006281 The Safety Pin Walter Hunt (1849) http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US00006281__
US00088711 Roller skate Isaac Hodgson (1869) http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US00088711__
US00088583 A Fire Extinguisher William Parker (1869) http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US00088583__
US00076831 The Lawn Mower S.W. Sears (1868) http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US00076831__
US00581213 An improved submarine Simon Lake (1897) http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US00581213__
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/patent/whitney1.html
US00381968 The electromagnetic motor Nikola Tesla (1888) http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US00381968__
US00403335 The Rotary Steam Engine Joseph H Dow & Herbert H Dow (1889) http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US00403335__
US00078317 Explosive Compound Alfred Nobel (1868) http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US00078317__
Industrialization
Lowell Project
http://hammer.ne.mediaone.net/lowell/lowell.htmlIR in Eng
http://www.woodberry.org/acad/hist/irwww/index.htmlIR Think Quest http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4132/info.htm#Bookmark Listings
All of the following 10 bios can be found at:
http://www.yahooligans.com/School_Bell/Social_Studies/History/Industrial_Revolution/Biographies/
2.Carnegie, Andrew@
3.Fulton, Robert@
4.Lowell, Francis Cabot (3)
5.McCormick, Cyrus@
6.Rockefeller, John D. Sr.@
7.Slater, Samuel (2)
8.Stephenson, George@
9.Watt, James@
10.Whitney, Eli@