LIST OF CREDIBLE SOURCES FOR THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

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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