Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution: Media
Read about the people and machines that transformed Western society in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Videos
Learn more about the various people who contributed to the invention of the lightbulb.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Learn more about Cyrus McCormick's mechanical reaper.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Images
During the Industrial Revolution factories were built to house machines and workers.
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection (B1986.29.390)
An annotated diagram showing how an operator uses a hand wheel, rollers, and spindles...
© Photos.com/Getty Images; Photo illustration: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
James Watt's rotative steam engine with sun-and-planet gear, original drawing, 1788....
British Crown copyright, Science Museum, London
Key-type Morse telegraph transmitter from the 1840s.
© Smithsonian Institution
Three-horsepower internal-combustion engine fueled by coal gas and air, illustration,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital File Number: cph 3c10411 )
Plans for Matzeliger's shoe-lasting machine
Culver Pictures, Inc.
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