Industrial Revolution
Australia and the Industrial Revolution
- The Australian Government - Linking a nationOverview of the generally technologically progressive quality of early colonial British society in Australia
Great Inventors
Jethro Tull
George Stephenson
James Watt
Edmund Cartwright
Richard Arkwright
Henry Bessemer
James Hargreaves
On Clickview
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On the web
- YaleOverview of the Industrial Revolution
- History World InternationalAn Overview of Industrialisation
- The Industrial RevolutionA good overview of the Industrial Revolution
- Timeline of the Industrial RevolutionSingapore University
- BBCThe Industrial Revolution
- Why was the Industrial Revolution British?Robert C Allen. Professor of Economic History Oxford University
- The Domestic systemProduction before the advent of factories
- Factory ActsThe Factory Acts were a series of Acts passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom to limit the number of hours worked by women and children, first in the textile industry, then later in all industries.
- Effects of the Industrial RevolutionEffects of the Industrial Revolution on: Working and Living Conditions,Urbanization, Public Health,Life Expectancy, Child Labor, Working Class Families and the Role of Women, The Emerging Middle Class, Wealth and Income
The Industrial Revolution
The steam engine
The Bessemer Converter
