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We used many of the following links in our research of the various inventors of the Industrial Revolution, and we encourage you to do the same in order to even further enhance your knowledge on each individual person and their invention.



George Stephenson: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAstephensonG.htm

Robert Fulton: http://www.robertfulton.org/, http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/transport/fulton.html

Henry Ford:

Orville and Wilbur Wright: http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/wright.html, http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/wright.html

Jethro Tull: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/tull_jethro.shtml, http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9073727/Jethro-Tull

Charles Townshend: http://home.worldonline.co.za/~townshend/turnipbio1.htm, http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-TwnshdC.html

Jethro Wood: http://www.bartleby.com/65/wo/Wood-Jet.html, http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0852644.html

Cyrus McCormick: http://gardenofpraise.com/ibdcyrus.htm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_McCormick

Richard Arkwright: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRarkwright.htm, http://www.britainexpress.com/History/bio/arkwright.htm

John Kay: http://www.saburchill.com/history/chapters/IR/009.html, http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/JohnKayo.htm

James Hargreaves: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blspinningjenny.htm, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SChargreaves.htm

Samuel Crompton: http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/cromptono.htm, http://www.bolton.org.uk/samuelcrompton.html

Edmund Cartwright: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SCcartwright.htm, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/cartwright_edmund.shtml

Eli Whitney: http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/152.html, http://www.kidsnewsroom.org/elmer/infoCentral/frameset/inventors/whitney/index.html

Thomas Newcomen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/newcomen_thomas.shtml, http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blsteamengine.htm

James Watt: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SCwatt.htm, http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/watto.htm

Henry Bessemer: http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jan/bessemer.html, http://www.nndb.com/people/062/000094777/

Charles Goodyear: http://www.nndb.com/people/062/000094777/, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/goodyear_hi.html

Allesandro Volta: http://www.thiel.edu/digitalelectronics/people/volta/ALLESANDRO%20VOLTA.htm, http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/scientists/volta.html

Andre Ampere: http://www.rare-earth-magnets.com/magnet_university/andre_marie_ampere.htm

Samuel Morse: http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/morse.html, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morse

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