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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

       
      Texas Railroads 

      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

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