Year 9: Industrial Revolution

Includes information on the history of these inventions: Photography, Telegraph, Morse system, Telephone, Phonograph, Radio, Television, Steamships, Fulton's Steamboat, Bicycle, Automobile, Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler, Aeroplanes, Water Wheel, Windmill, Steam Engine, Electric Battery, Electric Generator, Lightbulb, Steam Turbine, Gasoline Engine, Wright Brothers, Roads, Thomas Telford, John McAdam, Dynamite, Heinrich Hertz, Luigi Galvani, Alessandro Volta, Skyscrapers, Elevators, Air conditioning, Smallpox, Vaccination, Anesthesia, Louis Pasteur, X-Rays, Insulin, Antibiotics, Telescope, Microscope, Radar, Power Loom, Canning, Refrigeration, Steel, Aluminium, Glass.

Profiles a number of the minds behind some of history's greatest industrial advances, including JOHN KAY, JAMES HARGREAVES, RICHARD CARTWRIGHT, JAMES WATT, EDMUND CARTWRIGHT, Samuel Crompton, ROBERT FULTON, Eli Whitney, Samuel Slater, Stephenson family, Samuel Morse, Charles Goodyear, Elias Howe, Thomas Edison.

Includes Benjamin Franklin, JAMES WATT, Alessandro Volta, John McAdam, Nicephore Niepce, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, William Congreve, George Stephenson, Charles Goodyear, Henry Bessemer, Alfred Nobel, Thomas Edison, Karl Benz, Alexander Graham Bell, Rudolf Diesel, August Lumiere, Louis Lumiere, and Henry Ford

Includes Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur, and Alexander Fleming.

Traces the invention and early evolution and techniques of photography, from daguerreotypes to early attempts at color.

In 1879, Thomas Alva Edison invented the first practical incandescent electric light in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory, ushering in an era driven by electricity. This work takes a look at this achievement, examining how the lightbulb was partly responsible for transforming the country's agrarian economy into the modern industrial economy.

Includes JethroTull (p. 48); Robert Bakewell (p. 50); Richard Arkwright (p. 60); George Stephenson (p. 70); Canals (p. 75).

Includes Steam Engine p. 29; Thomas Newcomen p. 31; John Kay p. 34; James Watt p. 53-55; Railways p. 58; Robert Fulton p. 60; Steam Engines p. 117; Henry Bessamer p. 131; George Stephenson p. 145; Alexander Graham Bell p. 149.

Explores the evolution and effects of the Industrial Revolution and its transformation of Great Britain, the United States, and the rest of the world. Includes Biographies of Richard Arkwright, Henry Bessamer, Isambard Brunel, Edmund Cartwright, James Hargreaves, Samuel Morse, Thomas Newcomen, George Stephenson, Richard Trevithick, Eli Whitney and James Watt.

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