Industrial Revolution for Kids: The People and Technology That Changed the World, with 21 Activities
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS HANKS TO MY EDITOR Lisa Reardon at Chicago Review Press Also thanks to Christina Stern for her professional insights Special gratitude to the Miller family Jeff Kristie Bailey Zack and Brooklyn for their expertise and contributions to the project Bailey’s input and unique perspective was invaluable Zack's fascination with the boy miner photos was an inspiration And Brooklyn's help in papermaking was
TIME LINE LIA 1791 Samuel Slater builds the first thread spinning mill in the United States 1793 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin based on experiments he and Catharine Greene completed 1807 Robert Fulton designs a steam engine to power a boat 1822 Town of Lowell Massachusetts is founded 1825 Erie Canal is completed 1826 Joseph Niépce produces the first photograph 1830 Congress enacts the Indian Removal Act
1831 Cyrus McCormick invents the mechanical reaper 1834 National Trades Union is started 1835 Lucy Larcom goes to work in a Massachusetts mill 1837 John Deere invents the first steel plow 1838 Caulkers Association union is formed 1843 Dorothea Dix reports on conditions of the mentally ill in the state of Massachusetts 1844 Samuel B Morse sends the first telegram 1846 Elias Howe develops a sewing machine 1860 Pony Express moves mail cross country 1861 Civil War 1865 1868 Isaac Myers starts the Colored
Trade Union Society of Baltimore 1869 Knights of Labor forms Colored National Labor Union is started Transcontinental Railroad is completed III TTE I III IT III If PIT IN IIIIIIIIIII I III III II IT IN II III III II I III E AEG THE 1873 Economic depression Panic of 1873 hits 1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone American Centennial Exhibition is held in Philadelphia 1877 Nez Perce Chief Joseph surrenders to US government Great Railroad Strike occurs Thomas Edison files a patent for
