I found a website on the inventions and the machinery that were used during the Industrial Revolution. This web site incorporates machine tools, the Newcomen and Watt steam engines, the steam locomotive and steamboat, textile machinery, steel and skyscrapers, the electronic telegraph, road construction and delivery, and industrial standardization. The website is very detailed and gives many facts on the subject. Each subject incorporates the invention or machine the inventor and facts about the machine and how it helped industrialization. This site really helps the reader understand the Industrial Revolution and all the inventions and machinery we got out of it. It show how technology has grown throughout the ages. This website ties into what we are discussing in class because throughout all the chapters on Industrialization they all talk about new inventions and machines of the Industrial Revolution. It even talks about some machines that were not in the book. This website is a great source if you wanted to know more about the machinery of the Industrial Revolution. The website is easy to understand and is not difficult reading. The paragraphs are not to long but very factual. I liked this website very much and learned many new things about machinery of the Industrial Revolution.
6. Industrial Revolution
http://www.neo-tech.com/businessmen/part6.html 1/5/05
The second website I found,http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/2/81.02.06.x.html is an overview on many parts of the industrial revolution. It has lots of information and is very factual. It is easy to read and understand. It has many subjects that it talks about. They are agricultural changes, textiles, coal mining, iron, transportation, steam, the human aspect, capital, and labor. Some of these subjects have short paragraphs but they give many facts. All the subjects that the website incorporates are also in the book. We are learning about all this type of thing in chapters 20, 21, and 22. It also has to do with some of the debate topics that we debated about in class. Although this is a good website some of the things that are in the book are also on this website so it is repetitive but I also learned many new things too. The website is a very good source for students that want to get an overview of what the Industrial revolution was all about. The author did a good job of picking out the main ideas of the Industrial Revolution. They make the information enjoyable to read and interesting. Overall I think this was one of the best Industrial Revolution websites.
Joseph A. Montagna http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/2/81.02.06.x.html 1/5/05
The third website I found, http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/agriculturalrevolution.htm, talks about the Agricultural Revolution and the benefits that it had. Although this website is short the information it gives is very good and has many facts. The website is easy to read and easy to understand. The reading is not boring and very factual. This website ties into what we are discussing in class because in Chapter 20 the book talks about the Agricultural Revolution and all the ways it helped the farmers and the crop output. The Agricultural Revolution was very important and this website expresses this. I liked this website a lot and learned many new things. This is a great source to a student how knows some about the Agricultural Revolution but wants to know more. This website has to do will school history so it is appealing to students and designed for them. I found this website very informational and enjoyed it very much. I think it is just right for high school students and deals with what they are learning about in class.
The Agricultural Revolution http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/agriculturalrevolution.htm 1/5/05