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The Industrial Revolution |
| Themes |
Coal, Coal mining, Coke, Cotton, Industry, Invention, Iron, Machinery, Manufacturing, Metallurgy, Sociology, Steam power, Steel, Technology, Textiles, Water power, Workforce |
People/
groups |
Richard Arkwright, Thomas Boulsover, Matthew Boulton, James Brindley, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Edmund Cartwright, Henry Cort, Thomas and George Cranege, Samuel Crompton, Abraham Darby I, Abraham Darby II, Abraham Darby III, Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, William Fairbairn, James Hargreaves, Thomas Highs, Eaton Hodgkinson, Benjamin Huntsman, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Thomas Johnson (dressing frame), John Kay (flying shuttle), John Kay (spinning frame), Francis Cabot Lowell, Lunar Society, Thomas Newcomen, Robert Owen, Lewis Paul, William Radcliffe, Richard Roberts, Thomas Savery, John Smeaton, George Stephenson, Robert Stephenson, Thomas Telford, Richard Trevithick, James Watt, John Wilkinson, John Wyatt |
| Places |
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Bridgewater Canal, Coalbrookdale, Cromford, Derwent Valley Mills, Ironbridge, New Lanark, Portsmouth Block Mills, Quarry Bank Mill, Soho Foundry, Stockton and Darlington Railway |
Invention/
technology |
Blast furnace, Canal, Cotton mill, Crucible steel, Dressing frame, Factory, Flying shuttle, Newcomen steam engine, Power loom, Railway, Reverberatory furnace, Sheffield plate, Spinning frame, Spinning jenny, Steam engine, Stephenson's Rocket, Water frame, Watt steam engine |
| Social impact |
Bourgeoisie, Child labour, History of the Co-operative Movement, Cottage industry, Factory Acts, Industrial unrest, Luddite, Proletariat, Rochdale Pioneers |
| Reference |
History of technology, History of the British canal system, Industrial archaeology, List of United Kingdom-related topics, Timeline of clothing and textiles technology, Timeline of invention, Timeline of materials technology, Timeline of steam power |
