Robert Fulton |  Industrial Revolution | Industrial Revolution/Local Towns
Samuel Morse | Eli Whitney | Women in Industrial Revolution

Robert Fulton

MIT Inventor of the Week
National Inventors Hall of Fame
Thinkquest
Who Made America: PBS
 

Industrial Revolution

American Experience, PBS: The Time of the Lincolns - Techonology Gallery
American Industrial Revolution
American Memory
about.com - Overview
Engines of Our Ingenuity
On Power Looms
Nationall Museum of American History - Engines of Change; some photos
Thinkquest
Timeline
 

Industrial Revolution in Local Towns

American Experience, PBS: The Time of the Lincolns - Lowell Mill (need Quicktime)
A Digital Archive of American Architecture - photos of local mills
Blackstone Canal - some information on local canal
Blackstone River Valley Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution - History of the Blackstone River Valley.  Check out all the links.
Blackstone River Valley History and Culture
Digital Commonwealth - Photos of Draper Corporation in Hopedale, Massachusetts - click on right hand menu to narrow down selection.  Check with Mr. Roy to ensure the photo/info is from correct time period.
Footsteps in History - Photos of local towns
Industrial Revolution in Sutton - pdf document, dense text but some good information.
Lowell
Map of the Blackstone Valley
Mill Village Life
National Parks Service - Blackstone River Valley
Timeline of Textile Machinery
Who Made America: PBS - Francis Cabot Lowell (Lowell, Massachusetts)
Who Made America: PBS - Samuel Slater
Woonsocket, Rhode Island - Samuel Slater
The Woonsocket Museum of Work and Culture
Woonsocket's Original Mill Villages
 

Samuel Morse

about.com - timeline and biography
American Inventors and Inventions - photo and description of telegraph key
American Inventors and Inventions - photo and description of telegraph
Biography
MIT Inventor of the Week
National Inventors Hall of Fame
Who Made America: PBS
 

Eli Whitney

Mass Moments
MIT Inventor of the Week
National Inventors Hall of Fame
Thinkquest
Who Made America: PBS
 

Women in the Industrial Revolution

History Now - Women and the Early Industrial Revolution in the United States
Lowell Textile Mills - Women and Unions
 

Robert Fulton |  Industrial Revolution | Industrial Revolution/Local Towns
Samuel Morse | Eli Whitney | Women in Industrial Revolution

Created March 2009
 Ann Kampersal, Library Media Specialist
Bellingham Memorial Middle School, Bellingham, MA
Please email akampersal@bellingham.k12.ma.us with broken links