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
The First Phase: Textiles
- Introduction (the view in 1867)
- 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
Last modified 10 December 2008