The Industrial Revolution: An Overview

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General

• The Industrial Revolution: A Chronology
• Secondary Materials for Studying the Industrial Revolution: Seven Bibliographies
• The Great Inventors, Creators of the Industrial Revolution
• The Great Engineers
• The Contractors, Great and Not so Great
• British failures; or Why Great Britain Declined

The Preconditions for Industrial Revolution

• What Had to Happen First
• Belt-driven Machine Shop
• Water-Powered Drop Forge

The First Phase: Textiles

• Introduction (needed)
• Early Victorian Manchester as Revolutionary City
• Jacquard Loom
• Mule spinner creating cotton thread
• Powerloom with Shuttles

The Second Phase: Railroads and Steel

• Victorian Railways: An Overview (sitemap)
• The Growth of Victorian Railways
• The First Locomotives
• The Amalgamation of Victorian Railways; or What Followed the Railway Mania
• The Personalities of Victorian Railways
• The Social Effects of Victorian Railways

The Third Phase: Electricity and Chemicals (needed)

The Fourth Phase: Digital Information Technologies, Miniaturization

• Information Technology Does Not Begin with Computers
• From Print to Digital Text
• Hypertext and Hypermedia

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Last modified 23 April 2006