http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/industrialrev.html

Professor Gerhard Rempel, The Industrial Revolution, 2005

 

I enjoyed reading this site on industrial revolution very much. It is a very educational site, and any student studying the Industrial revolution in Europe should enjoy reading this site. The website begins by informing the reader about the Agricultural Revolution, and goes far into detail on that. It discusses how “Turnip” Townshend was famous for its cultivation of turnips and four-course rotation of crops: wheat, turnips, oats/ barley, clover. In the Agricultural Revolution section of the website, it also gives a summary of people who were involved such as Robert Bakewell or Arthur Young. Besides the Agricultural Revolution, Technological Change Since 1700 is another topic of discussion. In chronological order, headings are titled “Steam Engine”, “Electric Power”, “Railroads”, “Advances in Transportation”, and “The Steamship”. This goes even further into detail than the Agricultural discussion went. Another topic of discussion was titled: “Communications” and goes into detail on how letters were first mailed for a penny, and how Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone over a wire in 1876. The last section is titled “Changing Social Patterns” writes about population growth and cities expanding. In conclusion, I think this is an excellent website for educational purposes on the Industrial Revolution.

 

 

http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT/INDUSTRY.HTM

Richard Hooker, The European Enlightenment, The Industrial Revolution, 2005

 

I enjoyed reading this site on the Industrial Revolution Enlightenment in the eighteenth century very much. My favorite sentence from this website is, “The consequences of this revolution would change irrevocably human labor, consumption, family structure, social structure, and even the very soul and thoughts of the individual.” This sentence describes the Industrial Revolution as if it were a war. What I also like about this website is that it goes into discussion on why the Industrial Revolution took place in the first place. One reason was because the extended trade across the world stretched to every continent except Antarctica. Another reason was because of population growth, and how it grew so rapidly. Well, no matter what caused it, the writer of this document claims that the Industrial Revolution began in England, though historians are not positive about that yet either. England, he goes on to say, monopolized the other European countries because every time England went to war, it gain another overseas territory. Other than facts that talk about the Industrial Revolution itself, this website also explains the many inventions in great detail and summarize the life of some inventors as well. In conclusion, I personally think that this is a better website than the first one, because it goes into greater detail on the revolution itself.

 

 

http://crayzray.tripod.com/clpage/writtings/other/victorian_women.htm

- Allingham, Phillip V, Women of Victorian England, 2005

 

This website is very interesting because it writes about the lives of women during the Industrial Revolution time, during the 1800s. Women were divided into four distinct classes: Nobility and Gentry, Middle Class, "Upper" Working Class, and "Lower" Working class. The Nobility and Gentry was the highest class, and it might seem for someone in a lower class that women in this class did not have to do very much, but women in nobility and gentry had to manage a home and household. Compared to the other classes, women in this class were much more leisurely, and attended social parties and balls often. The next-highest class was the middle class. Women of this class were much like women of the upper class, though their lands were not so extensive nor their way of life so grand as that of the aristocracy and landed gentry. Women of the middle class depended heavily on marrying "up" into the upper classes, therefore gaining social prestige as well as a great deal more worldly goods. The third class was the "Upper" working class. This included any who were employed in jobs that took skill or thought, as opposed to physical labor. Women of the "Upper" working class often found positions in shops, as bookkeepers, or teachers. The fourth and last of these classes was the "Lower" working class. This included the desperately poor, typically single women. Women in the 1800s were much different than women now. As a child, little girls want to live the life as a woman attending balls and parties all the time, but now that I’ve learned about the life that they actually had, I’d like to stay with the life that I have now. The luxuries that I have now are far better than anything in the 1800s, thanks to the Industrial Revolution that took place.