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Industrial Revolution: spinning room
How the Industrial Revolution changed the world
Frank Sadorus: Photographing life on the Illinois plains
Industrial Revolution
Economic boom and disparity during Germany's founders' era
Industrial Revolution: factory workers
Discover how William Morris and his friends started the Arts and Crafts movement in response to mechanization
See how the Supreme Court decision in Lochner v. New York affected labourers in the Industrial Revolution
James Watt's steam engine spinning mule
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Vintage engraving from 1878 of the spinning room in Shadwell Rope Works. View of the factory floor. Industrial revolution
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James Watt's steam engine
Industrial Revolution Timeline
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Industrial Revolution Causes and Effects
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Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution
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A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England
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How the Industrial Revolution changed the world
Learn more about the Industrial Revolution.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Frank Sadorus: Photographing life on the Illinois plains
Learn more about life on the plains with the photography of Frank Sadorus.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Economic boom and disparity during Germany's founders' era
Learn about Germany's economic boom in 1870–71.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © clu-DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images; © Hunterbliss/Dreamstime.com
Discover how William Morris and his friends started the Arts and Crafts movement in response to mechanization
Learn how English designer William Morris and his friends started the Arts and Crafts...
Video: © Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
See how the Supreme Court decision in Lochner v. New York affected labourers in the Industrial Revolution
During the Industrial Revolution, decisions such as Lochner v. New York...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Tour the stages of Ford Motor Company's assembly lines producing the coupe, runabout, and Tudor sedan
Mass production of the Ford Model T. By bringing parts to the assembly line...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
James Watt's steam engine: The power behind the industrial revolution
Learn about James Watt's steam engine.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail James Watt. Etching by J. Scott, 1869, after J. E. Lauder. Wellcome Collection, London (Public domain)

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Industrial Revolution: spinning room
Vintage engraving showing the factory floor of the spinning room in Shadwell Rope...
© duncan1890—DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images
Industrial Revolution
A map depicting the spread of the Industrial Revolution through Europe in the 19th...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski
Industrial Revolution: factory workers
Women working machines at the American Woolen Company, Boston, c. 1912.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (cph 3c22840)
James Watt's steam engine
James Watt's engine displaced Thomas Newcomen's slow, clumsy steam pumping engine....
British Crown copyright, Science Museum, London
spinning mule
Samuel Crompton invented the spinning mule, a machine used to spin cotton and other...
Universal History Archive—UIG/Shutterstock.com
Samuel Slater
Samuel Slater.
From Samuel Slater and the Early Development of the Cotton Manufacture in the United States by William R. Bagnall, 1890
sewing machine
Lockstitch sewing machine invented by Elias Howe, c. 1846.
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Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell.
Culver Pictures
first flight by Orville Wright, December 17, 1903
Orville Wright beginning the first successful controlled flight in history, at Kill...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USZ62-6166A)
Industrial Revolution
During the Industrial Revolution factories were built to house machines and workers.
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection (B1986.29.390)
spinning jenny
Spinning jenny.
© Photos.com/Getty Images
Clermont
Robert Fulton's first steamboat, later called the Clermont, makes its first...
Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZ62-1342)
spinning jenny
The spinning jenny invented by James Hargreaves could spin eight threads at the same...
© Photos.com/Getty Images
glass factory
Workers make bottles at a glass factory in Lancashire, England, in the mid-1800s.
Wellcome Library, London (cc-by-4.0)
Labor Day parade
Labor Day parade in New York, New York, 1909.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. cph 3a34038)