Introduction

The Internet Resources

• Ask Jeeves list of Industrial Revolution Invention links. - If you can't find useful ideas about Industrial Revolution Inventions on the links listed on this page (and it's successors), you're not doing it right.

Invention Lists

• 18th Century (1700's) Inventions - Several of these inventions were significant to the beginning of the industrial revolution. Check out those that involved making thread and weaving, steam power inventions and large agricultural machines. Hint: The guillotine did not make a significant contribution to the Industrial Revolution.

• Inventions of the first half of the 19th Century - There are a few more inventions here which contributed to the Industrial Revolution. Remember, to be important to the Industrial Revolution, an invention needed to improve productivity of agriculture or industry. The stethoscope was a valuable invention, still in use today, but it was not an 'industrial' invention.

• Inventions of the second half of the 19th Century - Still more inventions. Be careful though: useful as it may be, toilet paper did not drive industry.

Specific Invention Examples

• Samuel Crompton's Spinning Mule - Information about Crompton's improvement on the Spinning Jenny.

• James Hargreaves' Spinning Jenny - The first leap forward in making thread from wool.

Link Lists

• Information about Industrial Revolution - This site contains links to some great information about inventions that were important to the Industrial Revolution

• Ask Jeeves list of Industrial Revolution Invention links. - If you can't find useful ideas about Industrial Revolution Inventions on the links listed on this page (and it's successors), you're not doing it right.