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i0A History of Cotton Mills and the Industrial Revolution - http://narvellstrickland1.tripod.com/cottonmillhistory2/index1.html - Extensive excerpt from a book on the development of the textile industry in the United States, including New England and Mississippi.
 
i0Accounts of the Potato Revolution - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1695potato.html - Writings of various authors.
 
i0Child Labour - http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.main.htm - Offers detailed descriptions on what it was like to work in a factory as a child. Includes biographies of factory reformers, accounts from the workers themselves, legislation passed and statistics.
 
i0Cotton Times - Understanding the Industrial Revolution - http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/ - An overview of the revolution in textiles, profiling workers and reformers of 18th century Britain, related events in labor history, and describing modes of transportation and living.
 
i0Cotton Town - http://www.cottontown.org/page.cfm?pageid=257 - 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.
 
i0Eccles, Manchester, Canals and Revolution - http://www.angelfire.com/hi5/canals/ - The story of how the Duke of Bridgewater created the first true canal in the United Kingdom from his coal mines to Manchester with galleries of related photographs and engravings.
 
i0Factory Workers in the British Industrial Revolution - http://www.galbithink.org/fw.htm - Papers on children, men, and women as factory workers as complete texts and abstracts by Douglas Galbi.
 
i0Industrial Revolution - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html - A comprehensive entry on the Industrial Revolution.
 
i0Industrial Revolution - http://www.geocities.com/turning_world/ - A history project done by a secondary student in Hong Kong.
 
i0Industrial Revolution - http://members.tripod.com/xu_chen/indusrevolt/ - A slide show presentation on the Industrial Revolution, including a look at inventions, labor laws, and socialism.
 
i0Industrial Revolution Vocabulary - http://www.drizzle.com/~jcouture/1_world/industrial_rev/Vocab%20Industrial%20Revolution%200203.htm - Related terms with definitions.
 
i0Industry Revolution - http://www.geocities.com/gjnllh/ - A brief introduction to the revolution with information on the causes, inventions, and inventors.
 
i0Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England - http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/toynbee/indrev - The full text by Arnold Toynbee in 1884.
 
i0Leeds Woollen Workers Petition - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1786machines.html - A petition by workers complaining about the effects of machines on the previously well-paid skilled workers.
 
i0Letter of Leeds Cloth Merchants - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791machines.html - Defense on the use of machines.
 
i0Steam Engine Library - http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/ - A collection of historical documents.
 
i0The Industrial Revolution - http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/industrialrev.html - Professor Gerhard Rempel's introduction to the Industrial Revolution.
 
i0The Industrial Revolution and the Railway System - http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/ind_rev/ - Features a range of historical information and data including research papers, images, and extracts from the Illustrated London News.
 
i0The Wolverhampton Gunlock Makers - http://www.wolverhampton-gunlocks.fslife.co.uk/ - A sketch history of the family businesses who produced gunlocks (firing mechanisms for guns) from the 18th century to present day.
 
i0What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us - http://www.open2.net/industrialrevolution/ - Explores the advances in science and engineering and how their effects are still felt today.
 
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