industrial revolution

Explains how new inventions and other factors set the stage for huge advances in medicine during the Industrial Age, beginning in the middle of the eighteenth century.

A survey of three nineteenth-century wars, including the Crimean War, the American Civil War, and the German Wars of Unification; discussing the impact of politics and industrialization on the conflicts.

This program focuses on the transformation of the American way of life from agrarian principles to thedependency on big business,(steel and oil industry, railroads, migration, and the Homestead Act of 1826. Inventors of the day: George Eastman, Alexander, Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison. Child labor, working con-ditions and the American labor movenment. Teachers guide included.

With primary sources the Industrial Revolution is described in England.

Describes the history of the early nineteenth century when the United States was in transition from a rural economy to an industrial powerhouse, and the combination of universal male suffrage, the shift of political power from elites to the middle class, and the commitment to mechanized production produced a mass-consumption society.

Contains entries that provide information on notable people, places, events, and developments of the Industrial Revolution from 1700 to 1920; arranged alphabetically from A to N, with an introduction, chronology, and illustrations.