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LIST OF CREDIBLE SOURCES FOR THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

For this project you may use the sources below or your own sources. These have been checked for factual accuracy and are highly recommended. Wikipedia will not count as a source. For example, if you choose to use Wikipedia and your project requires 3 sources you will need to find 3 additional sources. Remember that Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc. are search engines. They are not sources!

General Sources on the Industrial Revolution

History Channel

http://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution

Encyclopedia Britannica

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/287086/Industrial-Revolution

USHistory.org

http://www.ushistory.org/us/22a.asp

WorldHistory.org

http://history-world.org/Industrial%20Intro.htm

Teen Ink http://www.teenink.com/nonfiction/academic/article/306793/The-Many-Changes-Brought-by-the-Industrial-Revolution/

Gilder Lehrman http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/gilded-age/essays/history-times-industrial-revolution

Cotton Gin Resources

History Channel

http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/cotton-gin-and-eli-whitney

National Archives

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/cotton-gin-patent/

Ourdocuments.gov

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=14

New Georgia Encyclopedia

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/cotton-gins

Have Fun With History

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/cotton-gins

Eliwhitney.org

http://www.eliwhitney.org/sites/default/files/minisites/cotton/patent.html

Water Powered Textile Mill

Old Sturbridge Village

https://www.osv.org/types-of-mills

About.com

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blspinningframe.htm

PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/slater_hi.html

CNN Money

http://money.cnn.com/gallery/smallbusiness/2013/01/25/made-in-america/

Bryant.edu

http://web.bryant.edu/~ehu/h364proj/fall_98/hulton/index.htm

Library of Congress

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec20.html

Steamboat

About.com

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blsteamship.htm

Encyclopedia Britannica

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/221963/Robert-Fulton

Eyewitness to History

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/fulton.htm

PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/fulton_hi.html

Biography

http://www.biography.com/people/robert-fulton-9304012

Mainlesson.com

http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=bachman&book=inventors&story=fulton

Robertfulton.org

http://www.robertfulton.org/

Locomotive

Eyewitness to History

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/tomthumb.htm

About.com

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_tom_thumb.htm

Biography.com

http://www.biography.com/people/peter-cooper-9256733

Today in Science

http://todayinsci.com/C/Cooper_Peter/CooperPeter-TomThumb.htm

American-rails.com

http://www.american-rails.com/tom-thumb.html

REB Research

http://www.rebresearch.com/Cooper/petercooper.html

http://www.homeadvisor.com/r/texas-railroad-history/?scrlybrkr=69c1989e#

Telegraph

About.com

http://inventors.about.com/od/tstartinventions/a/telegraph.htm

History Channel

http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/telegraph

America’s Library

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/reform/jb_reform_morsecod_1.html

White River Valley Museum

http://www.wrvmuseum.org/morsecodehistory.htm

Elon University

http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/150/1830.xhtml

The Problem Site

http://www.theproblemsite.com/codes/morse.asp

Radio-electronics.com

http://www.radio-electronics.com/info/radio_history/morse/morse-code-facts.php

PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/morse_hi.html

Steel Plow

Smithsonian Magazine

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/john-deere-was-a-real-person-his-invention-changed-the-country-4017033/?no-ist

History Wired

http://historywired.si.edu/detail.cfm?ID=212

About.com

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bldeere.htm

Biography.com

http://www.biography.com/people/john-deere-9269591

Encyclopedia.com

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3406400898.html

John Deere Company

https://www.deere.com/en_US/corporate/our_company/about_us/history/john_deere_plow/john_deere_plow.page

Illinois Periodicals Online

http://www.lib.niu.edu/2001/iht810102.html

Guttenberg.org

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34562/34562-h/34562-h.htm