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Industrial Revolution
Effects of the Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revolution in America

Industrial Revolution in England
Overviews
Inventions/Inventors/Innovations

Innovation
Invention Timelines/invention museums
Inventions That Impacted the West
Advertising
Agriculture/Farming
Cities/Urban Development
Communication
Fashion/Clothing
Fishing/Fisheries
Food/Food Preparation
Health/Medicine/Hygiene/Science
Household
Manufacturing &Production of Goods & Materials
Pastimes/Recreation
Power/Energy

Transportation
Warfare/Guns/Weapons

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Discoveries

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The California Gold Rush, 1849
Oil and Mining
Developing the West

Types of Mining

 

Economics

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Economic Environment

Origins/Background Information/Overviews
Industrialization/Industrial Revolution

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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

Industrial Revolution Begins In England

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A Trip to the Past England
Cottage Industry to the Factory

Early American Manufacturing

Industrial Revolution Begins in America

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Samuel Slater
Slater’s Mill
Father of the American Revolution

Effects of the Industrial Revolution 

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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

Inventions/Inventors/Innovations

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 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

 

Nikola Tesla

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)

Innovation

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Technology
Technology Chronology
Innovations Timeline
Technological Innovation Timeline -
Post Civil War

Revolution in Time Keeping

Invention Timelines/Invention Museums

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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

Inventions That Impacted the West

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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
R
oad 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
 

Advertising

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Emergence of Advertising in America

Agriculture/Farming

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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

Cities/Urban Development

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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)

Water Works New York

Communication

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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
famous people who have used pencils
why pencils are yellow
Pencil History
J. L. Love - Pencil Sharpener (1897)
Pens
The Fountain Pen

Photographic Images
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
P  The Kodak       P  The Kodak Camera      P  The Kodak Camera
P The Kodak Camera        P When You Come Back
 

Sound
Charles Wheatstone - 1st microphone, a primitive sound box - 1821

Telegraph
Joseph Henry 1st electric telegraph 1831
phonograph, or speaking machine Edison

Thomas 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

MORSE CODE
   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

Wireless Telephone/Radio
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
Thomas Edison patents the phonograph - with a wax cylinder as recording medium 1877
Eadweard Muybridge invents high speed photography - creating first moving pictures that captured motion. 1877
Emile Berliner invents the gramophone - a system of recording which could be used over and over again. 1887
George Eastman patents Kodak roll film camera 1888
Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone or automatic telephone exchange 1889
Guglielmo Marconi improves wireless telegraphy 1894

Office Equipment
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

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

Fashion/Clothing

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safety pin
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

Shoes/Shoemaking
Jan Matzeliger - Automatic Shoe Making Machine that revolutionized the making of shoes (1883)

 

Fishing/Fisheries

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Lewis Temple - Toggle Harpoon (1848)

Food/Food Preparation

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Food Related Inventions
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

 

Health/Medicine/Hygiene/Science

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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

Household

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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)

Manufacturing &Production of Goods & Materials

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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

Pastimes/Recreation

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Baseball
The Baseball Glove Comes to Baseball, 1875

This Day in Baseball History
Boxing
Corbett Knocks Out Sullivan, 1892 - 1st Heavyweight Fight fought with Boxing Gloves
Football
In 1892, Livingstone and Biddle College (now Johnson C. Smith) play the first African American intercollegiate football game

Zoos
first American zoo opened in 1874 in Philadelphia

Power/Energy

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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

Mining and Oil Extraction

Transportation

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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

nventing Flight Transportation
Inventing Land Transportation
Inventing Water Transportation


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

Mail/Postal Transportation
The Pony Express
Mail by Boat
Mail by Rail


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



Railroads of the West

Railroads of the West
P Central Pacific Maps
P Central Pacific Photos
P Central Pacific Photos - Index

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"

Granville Woods
Elijah McCoy - Automatic Lubrication System for railroads and heavy machinery (1892)
Elija McCoy

Andrew Beard - Automatic Car Coupling Device (1897)

Elevated Trains
P 
Chicago Map of Elevated Train Lines 1897

Horse Cars/Street Cars/Cable Cars/Trolley Cars
Cable Car Description
Cable Cars in San Francisco - 1871
Street Car Description
Biography of Andrew Hallidie, Cable Car Inventor


Street Cars in North America
First Street Car System New York City 1864 Stephen Dudley Field
Horse Car Description
Trolley Car Description

Ships/Steamboats/Steamships
The Last Masts
History of Steamboats
Steamboats
First Voyage of Fulton's Clermont

 Fulton's First Steamboat Voyage, 1807
Steamboat Museum
Steamboats - Info/links to steamboats old and new
Flatbottom Boats


Wagons, Stagecoaches
R
oad 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

Overland Trail - Lots of Links

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

 

Warfare/Guns/Weapons

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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://inventors.about.com/cs/lessonplans/a/student_primer.htm

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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The Electric Light Bulb Thomas A Edison (1880) http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US00223898__

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Hypodermic Syringe Charles T Sage (1843) http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US00002906__

 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.html

IR in Eng http://www.woodberry.org/acad/hist/irwww/index.html

IR 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@

 

 

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