industries

Illustrations with explanatory text describe such familiar everyday processes as generating electricity, producing a newspaper, handling sewage, and delivering flowers.

Chronicles the development of railroads, steel, and oil as moneymakers in nineteenth-century America, describing their impact on labor practices and everyday life in the U.S.

Discusses the history of Rochester, New York, with photographs and illustrations, chronicling the events that led to its creation along the Genesee river, early village life, the boom after the opening of the Erie Canal, the city's role as part of the Underground Railroad, and more.

Todd Noland and Joel Kasten, two high school seniors fed up with adult hypocrisy, launch a scheme to disrupt the political and social control of the recording, cigarette, and junk food industry.

A history of the Industrial Revolution focusing primarily on the United States during the nineteenth century and on the change from an agrarian society to one based on machines and factories.

Describes the working methods, products, houses and shops, town and country trades, and individual and group enterprises of colonial American skilled craftsmen.

Photographs and illustrations describe the Industrial Revolution, with the rise of the textile industry and the invention of the steam ship, the transcontinental railroad, and the telegraph.

Examines the geography, agriculture, industries, people, history, and culture of Germany.

Uses contemporary pictures and maps in presenting the story of the trappers, miners, ranchers, and farmers who turned a huge wilderness into the "breadbasket of the world.".

Describes and illustrates the opening up and settling of the Old West, its trails, canals, railroads, and other aspects, from the early migrations to the coming of the telephone, through a variety of images created during that period.