Inventions Of The Industrial Revolution – Cheap steam power got the industrial revolution going.
Inventions Of The Industrial Revolution – A list of industrial revolution inventors can be found on the website AmericanHistory.About.com. Starting with James Watt whom invented the first reliable steam engine, over Elias Howe his sewing machine, to Henry Ford's model T Ford and his assembly line. Until today these inventions, and their improved versions, play a very important role in the world economy. More information can be found here: http://americanhistory.about.com/library/charts/blchartindrev.htm . Important inventions, inventors,
and events of the industrial revolution, can also be found here: http://americanhistory.about.com/od/industrialrev/a/indrevoverview_2.htm.
On Inventors.About.com, we find a list with the major, American, British, and European inventions of the industrial revolution. During that period in time manual labour was being replaced by the newly invented machinery. More information can be found on the following website: http://inventors.about.com/od/indrevolution/Industrial_Revolution.htm . And here is also a detail of the inventions in the textile machinery: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blindustrialrevolutiontextiles.htm .
At TeachersFirst.com, we are presented with lesson ideas about the inventors of the industrial revolution. “Why are these inventions being considerded as a revolution?”, is the main theme of these lessons. The web-site can be found here: http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/inventor2/lesnideas.cfm .
Our next place where we find information is KidInfo.com. Here you will find a whole page dedicated to the industrial revolution. You also will be able to find the list “Inventions Important to the Industrial Revolution”, and “Inventors Important to the Industrial Revolution”. For complete details be sure to visit the web-site here: http://www.kidinfo.com/american_history/industrial_revolution.html .
The following place you need to visit is SchoolHistory.org.uk, on the web-page “Inventions that
fuelled the industrial revolution”, we get an overview. More information can be found at the following location: http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/IndustrialRevolution/inventions.htm.
And also information can be found here: http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/IndustrialRevolution/index.htm .
And finally you will be able to find information about the inventions and inventors of the industrial revolution at Resources.Chuh.org. You are presented with a nice overview of the inventions, and of the people whom made these inventions. Some of these inventions are well known like photography, others are not. Visit the web-site for detailed information: http://resources.chuh.org/CHHS/Library/TeacherWeb/
SocialStudies/WorldHistory/IndustrialRevolutInventors.htm .