Ms. Ross' - Industrial Revolution
General links for
Inventors:
http://inventors.about.com
(then type in search name)
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/inventors.htm
Joseph Maire Jacquard:
http://www.bookrags.com/Joseph_Marie_Jacquard
http://www.bookrags.com/
Alexander Graham Bell:
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltelephone2.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/peopleevents/mabell.html
http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/top_ten/nominee/bell-alexander-graham.html#top
Gotlieb Daimler:
http://www.autonews.com/files/euroauto/inductees/daimler.htm
http://discoverychannel.co.uk/cars/pioneers/index.shtml
Rudolf Diesel:
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/42.html
http://www.dieselduck.ca/library/articles/rudolph_diesel.htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/C006011/english/sites/diesel.php3?v=2
Henry Ford:
http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/hf/default.asp
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ford.htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002039F/assembly_line.htm
James Watt:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/watt_james.shtml
http://www.egr.msu.edu/~lira/supp/steam/wattbio.html
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/imago/watt.html
http://www.nndb.com/people/531/000050381
Henry Cort:
http://www.tilthammer.com/bio/cort.html
http://www.henrycort.net/01life.htm
Michael Faraday:
http://www.rigb.org/rimain/heritage/faradaypage.jsp
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/faraday_michael.shtml
http://www.iee.org/TheIEE/Research/Archives/Exhibitons/Faraday/index.cfm
(really good site—online exhibition!)
George Stephenson:
http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/stephensono.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAstephensonG.htm
Samuel Morse:
http://home.clara.net/rod.beavon/samuel.htm
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/atthtml/morse1.html
http://www.telegraph-history.org/samuel-morse/signature.html
William F. Talbot:
http://www.r-cube.co.uk/fox-talbot/index.html
http://www.foxtalbot.arts.gla.ac.uk/talbot/biography.html
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tlbt/hd_tlbt.htm
Thomas Newcomen:
http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/newcomeno.htm
http://technology.niagarac.on.ca/staff/mcsele/newcomen.htm
http://www.newcomen.com/thomas.htm
Samuel Crompton:
http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/cromptono.htm
http://www.todayinsci.com/cgi-bin/indexpage.pl?
http://www.todayinsci.com/C/Crompton_Samuel/Crompton_Samuel.htm
Henry Cavendish:
http://mattson.creighton.edu/History_Gas_Chemistry/Cavendish.html
http://www.nndb.com/people/030/000083778/
Guglielmo Marconi:
http://www.marconiusa.org/marconi/
http://www.marconicalling.com/introsting.htm
Louis Daguerre:
http://www.daguerre.org/resource/texts.html
http://www.fi.edu/pieces/myers/
John Kay:
http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/johnkayo.htm
Thomas Edison:
http://www.thomasedison.com/
http://www.nps.gov/archive/edis/home.htm
Jethro Tull
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/tull_jethro.shtml
http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/jtull.html
http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/inventor/ag3.htm
Henry Bessemer
http://www.invent.org/Hall_Of_Fame/183.html
http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9357155/Sir-Henry-Bessemer
Thomas Savery
http://library.thinkquest.org/C006011/english/jsites/steam_thomas_savery.php3?v=2
Robert Fulton
http://www.robertfulton.org/
http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/inventions/fulton_robert.html
Eli Whitney
http://www.eliwhitney.org/inventor.htm
http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/biography/eli.html
Ed Cartwright
http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Edmund_Cartwright
http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=167
Richard Arkwright
http://www.lancashirepioneers.com/arkwright/default.asp
http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/people/BG.0008/
James Hargreaves
http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9366612/James-Hargreaves
William Perkin
http://www.msim.org.uk/Galleries.asp?MenuID=1257
Elizabeth Fry
http://www.elizabethfry.ab.ca/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/famouspeople/standard/fry/index.shtml
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