This is my first website I chose for my webliography and I chose it because it gives a good summary of all the advances that were made during the industrial revolution. The site starts off with talking about the Agricultural revolution and one of the highlights the website talks about was Lord Townsend aka �Turnip� Townsend introducing the four course rotation of these crops: wheat, turnips, oats or barley and clover. Then the site talks about technology since the 1700s and how Richard Arkwright invention of the �water frame� which produced yarn led to James Hargreaves invention of the spinning jenny which allowed one person to spin many threads at a time and in which that led to Samuel Crompton�s invention of the �Crompton Mule� which combined the water frame and the spinning jenny and produced lots of strong, quality yarn. The site also talks about the steam engine and James Watt�s significance to the steam engine. Other topics on the website are advances in transportation, railroads, communications and the steamships in which all provide a nice summary of each topic. The site concludes with talking about how the industrial revolution changed social patterns of the people that came after that time. Overall this is a great site to visit to get a great summary of the industrial revolution without having to do any research.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html , Industrial Revolution, Internet Modern History Sourcebook, 2005
My second webliography is another site that gives a good summary of the industrial revolution but this one I feel gives a more in depth summary than does the first site. The site starts off with a table of contents with links that send you to the part of the page with the information. The three links are industrial revolution, social and political affects and literary response. Under industrial revolution is the agricultural revolution and under the agricultural revolution is the potato revolution. When you click this link you get peoples take on potatoes such as Adam Smith, Thomas Ruggles and Sir Frederick M. Eden. Under great engineers there is a link to click in which you get a full list of all the famous engineers such as James Brindley who was a canal engineer, Robert Fulton who worked with steam boats and William Murdock who worked with gas lighting. Under literary response the site ahs links to different responses to the industrial revolution one author that ahs a few responses is Charles Dickens. This site is very informational and a very good research tool but may I warn you that some of the links do not work and some of the words under each topic don�t have a link.
http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/WestEurope/IndRev.html , David W. Keller, Industrial revolution, 2005
My final website I chose for my webliography is a simple but yet informal website that is a timeline of the industrial revolution. The website starts off with Newcomen�s invention of the steam engine in 1712 which is under the topic of The First Industrial Revolution. Others under the same topic are James Hargreaves� invention of the spinning jenny in 1764 and Richard Arkwright�s invention of the water frame in 1769. The next topic is the spread of the Industrial Revolution and one of the significant feats was the first commercial oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania in 1859. The final topic is on the second Industrial Revolution in which chemicals and electricity really boomed from 1875- 1905. Some significant people during this age were Alexander Graham Bell who invented the telephone in 1876, Thomas Edison who invented the indandescent light bulb in 1879 and the last person, Guglielmo Marconi, invented the wireless. This site isn�t a great source for a research report but if a person just wants to get a nice overview of significant dates in the Industrial Revolution that person would be successful in his or her goal.