Industrial+Revolution

=Power Library Databases= You must be in the library to use these links.

[|Biography Reference Bank] Search for the inventor you have chosen [|Facts for Learning] Not only can you do a keyword search this database, but you can also click on the timelines button on the lower right and then choose the invention timeline. [|AP Multimedia Archive] You may need to narrow the search using the "when" field. See Mrs. S. for help or check the "tips" link.

=Resources on the World Wide Web=

[|TeachersFirst Inventor's Workshop]TeachersFirst developed this unit to provide upper elementary and middle school teachers with a set of resources for exploring inventors and inventions. (requires Flash.) [|The Inventors of the Industrial Revolution] [|The Industrial Revolution] (from about.com) [|Cotton Times: Understanding the Industrial Revolution] Features an interactive map, glossary, bibliography, and links. [|Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin] Material from the national archives. Documents related to the [|Development of the Industrial United States] More resources from the national archives.

[|Document analysis worksheets]- Use these when evaluating primary sources. [|Women and Children in the Industrial Revolution] [|History Learning Site]

= = =Books in Our Library=

Altman, Linda Jacobs, 1943- //__Women inventors__//. New York : Facts On File, c1997. Beckhard, Arthur J. //__Electrical genius Nikola Tesla__//. New York, Messner [1959] Bowen, Andy Russell//__. A head full of notions : a story about Robert Fulton__//. Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c1997. Collier, James Lincoln, 1928- //__Clocks__//. New York : Benchmark Books, c2004. Collier, James Lincoln, 1928- //__Gunpowder and weaponry__//. New York : Benchmark Books, c2004. Connolly, Sean, 1956- //__The Industrial Revolution__//. Chicago : Heinemann Library, c2003. Dowswell, Paul. //__Everyday life.__// Chicago, Ill. : Heinemann Library, c2002. //__Encyclopedia Of Inventions__//. 1976 Gearhart, Sarah. //__The telephone__//. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1999. Grant, Neil. //__The industrial revolution__//. New York, F. Watts, 1973. Haskins, James, 1941- //__Outward dreams : Black inventors and their inventions__//. New York : Walker, 1991. //__Industrial revolution__//. San Diego : Harcourt Brace & Co., 1994. Ingpen, Robert R. //__The industrial revolution__//. New York : Chelsea House, 1995. Langley, Andrew. //__The industrial revolution__//. New York : Viking, 1994. Latham, Jean Lee. //__Man of the Monitor; the story of John Ericsson__//. New York, Harper [1962] Linder, Greg, 1950- //__Alexander Graham Bell : a photo-illustrated biography__//. Mankato, Minn. : Bridgestone Books, c1999. Matthews, Tom, 1949- //__Always inventing : a photobiography of Alexander Graham Bell__//. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, c1999. Meltzer, Milton, 1915- //__The cotton gin__//. New York : Benchmark Books/M. Cavendish, c2004. Norman, Bruce. //__The inventing of America__//. New York : Taplinger Pub. Co., 1976. Outman, James L., 1946- __Industrial Revolution__. Detroit, MI : U·X·L : Thomson/Gale, c2003. Pollard, Michael, 1931- //__The nineteenth century__//. New York : Facts on File, 1993. Pratt, Fletcher, 1897-1956. //__All about famous inventors and their inventions__//. New York : Random House, c1955. Rubin, Susan Goldman. //__Toilets, toasters, & telephones__//. San Diego, Calif. : Browndeer Press/Harcourt Brace, c1998. Rush, Jean. //__The book of fantastic machines__//. [New York] : Golden Press, 1974. Sandler, Martin W. //__Inventors__//. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1996. Smith, Nigel. //__The Industrial Revolution__//. Austin, TX : Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 2003, c2002. Thimmesh, Catherine. //__Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women.__// Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2000. //__Those inventive Americans__//. [Washington, D.C. : The Society, c1971] Vare, Ethlie Ann. //__Women inventors and their discoveries__//. Minneapolis : Oliver Press, c1993. Vialls, Christine. //__The industrial revolution begins__//. Minneapolis : Published in cooperation with Cambridge University Press [by] Lerner Communications Co., 1982, c1980. Wallace, Joseph E. //__The lightbulb.__// New York, N.Y. : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1999. Williams, Brian, 1959- //__Communications__//. Chicago, Ill. : Heinemann Library, c2002. Woog, Adam, 1953- //__A sweatshop during the industrial revolution__//. San Diego : Lucent Books ; Detroit, MI : Thomson/Gale, c2003. Wroble, Lisa A. //__Kids during the industrial revolution__//. New York : PowerKids Press, 1999.