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HISTORY: 11H/AP (Industrial Revolution): Improvements/Developments

This guide will introduce research methods for the Industrial Revolution.

Database Research Links

Preserving the Dust: The Role of Machines in Commemorating the Industrial Revolution

History and Memory, vol. 26, no. 2, Indiana University Press, 2014, pp. 106–32, https://doi.org/10.2979/histmemo.26.2.106.

Fostering a new industry in the Industrial Revolution: Boulton & Watt and gaslight 1800-1812

The British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 46, no. 2, [Cambridge University Press, The British Society for the History of Science], 2013, pp. 199–229, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43820385.

Why the industrial revolution was British: commerce, induced invention, and the scientific revolution

The Economic History Review, vol. 64, no. 2, Wiley, 2011, pp. 357–84, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41262428.

The Industrial Revolution in Miniature: The Spinning Jenny in Britain, France, and India

The Journal of Economic History, vol. 69, no. 4, [Economic History Association, Cambridge University Press], 2009, pp. 901–27, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25654027.

Industrial Revolution

"Industrial Revolution." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 21 Jul. 2021. school.eb.com/levels/high/article/Industrial-Revolution/42370. Accessed 13 Jan. 2022.

Mass Production

"Mass production." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 15 Nov. 2018. school.eb.com/levels/high/article/mass-production/106304. Accessed 13 Jan. 2022.

Automation

"Automation." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 22 Oct. 2020. school.eb.com/levels/high/article/automation/109393. Accessed 13 Jan. 2022.

Newsela Collection

Expansion and Reform: Technology of the 1800s

The Industrial Revolution and Technology

Benedict Library Resources

Images

WATT'S STEAM ENGINE, 1769

Schematic view of James Watt's (1736-1819), single-acting pumping steam engine for mines, 1769. Wood engraving, 19th century.. Fine Art. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
quest.eb.com/search/140_1638925/1/140_1638925/cite. Accessed 11 Jan 2022.

Jonathan Hornblower, Compound Engine, 1781

Jonathan Hornblower, Compound Engine, 1781. Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 19 Jan 2021.
quest.eb.com/search/139_3929996/1/139_3929996/cite. Accessed 11 Jan 2022.

Spinning Jenny invented by James Hargreaves.

Spinning Jenny increased productivity and output of spinning and weaving cotton. 18th century. Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 31 Aug 2017.
quest.eb.com/search/113_1843565/1/113_1843565/cite. Accessed 11 Jan 2022.

COTTON GIN, 19th CENTURY - Eli Whitney's cotton gin. Wood engraving, American, 19th century. Fine Art. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
quest.eb.com/search/140_1635080/1/140_1635080/cite. Accessed 11 Jan 2022.