Industrial Revolution Inventions

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Battery
1.  Fuel Cell Battery
2. History of the Battery
3.  Battery — Brief History
4. Battery — History
5.  How Batteries Work & History

Bicycle
1.  Bicycling — Leisure and Recreation
2.  Bicycling — Economic History
3.  Transportation — Bicycle & Railroad
Photography
1.  Photography in the 19th Century — advanced reading level
2.  Photography — American History through Literature
3.  Photography — Civil War
4.  Photography — Matthew Brady

Railroads
1.  Railroads — Westward Migration
2.  Railroad — How Railroads Changed America
3.  Railroad — Steam-Powered Railroads & Industrial Revolution
4.  Railroad — Transportation: Bicycle & Railroad
5.  History of Railroads — Library of Congress

Sewing Machine
1.  Sewing Machine — World of Invention, 2006
2.  Sewing Machine — Invention of the Sewing Machine
3.  Howe’s Invention of the Sewing Machine
4.  Story of the Sewing Machine, The New York Times, 1860
5.  Howe’s Sewing Machine
6.  History of the Sewing Machine – About 
7.  Howe’s idea came in a dream
8.  Elias Howe Biography
Steam Locomotives
1.  Steam Locomotives
2.  Locomotives — World of Invention
3.  George Stephenson – Inventor
4.  Steam Locomotives – History
5.  Steam Locomotives — Transcontinental Railroad History
6.  History of Railroads — Library of Congress
7.  Outline of Railroad History — About

Telegraph
1.  Telegraph — UXL History 
2.  Telegraph — Science
3.  Telegraph — U.S. History, 2009
4.  Telegraph — Encyclopedia of Science 
5.  Telegraph — Cavendish Square
6.  Samuel Morse — Biography
7.  Telegraph — UXL Encyc. of Science

8.  Invention of American Telegraphy — Cavendish
Typewriter
1.  Typewriter — ULX
2.  Typewriter — Office Technology
3.  Typewriter — World of Invention
4.  Automatic Writing Machine
Bessemer Steel
1.  Bessemer Steel
2.  Bessemer Steel — Process
3.  Second Industrial Revolution — Steel
4.  Bessemer Process
5.  Birth of Modern Steel Makers
6.  The Steel Industry
7.  Iron in the 19th Century

Clock
1.  Clock & Benjamin Banneker 
2.  Work & Impact of Benjamin Banneker

 

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