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» A History of Cotton Mills and the Industrial Revolution - Extensive excerpt from a book on the development of the textile industry in the U.S., including New England and Mississippi. Author: Narvell Strickland.
» A Short History of Machine Tools - Suggests that Great Britain and America were chiefly responsible for the Industrial Revolution.
» Child Labour in the 19th Century - Features biographies and entries on reformers, supporters, laborers, working conditions, and other things related to child labor in Britain.
» Cotton Times - An overview of the industrial revolution in textiles, profiling workers and reformers of 18th century Britain, related events in labor history, and describing modes of transportation and living.
» Cotton Town - Tells the story of the rapid social and economic changes that occurred as Blackburn and Darwen began to expand with the growth of the British textile industry.
» Eccles, Manchester, Canals and Revolution - The story of how the Duke of Bridgewater created the first true canal in the U.K from his coal mines to Manchester. Galleries of related photographs and engravings.
» Industrial Revolution - A history project done by a secondary student in Hong Kong.
» Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England - The full text of these lectures by Arnold Toynbee in 1884.
» The Industrial Revolution - A brief history of what happened during this time period.
» The Industrial Revolution and the Railway System - Features a range of historical information and data including research papers, images, and extracts from the Illustrated London News.
» The Wilkinson Family - Ironmasters - A series of illustrated historical essays about the family who played a major role in the history and economy of eighteenth century Britain, France and America.
» What The Industrial Revolution Did For Us - BBC/Open University site to accompany the series 'What The Industrial Rveolution Did For Us', exploring the advances in science and engineering and how their effects are still felt today.