Synopses & Reviews
Includes bibliographical references (p. 53) and index.
Synopsis
What was it like to be a child worker in 1700? What was it like to invent the steamboat? What was it like to be a witness to history? Step back in time to the Industrial Revolution and see history through the eyes of those who lived it. Find out how it felt to work nineteen hours a day in a textile factory-at the age of eleven. Hear what it was like to be the first person to send words across the world by telephone. Discover the horrors of life in an overcrowded industrial city during a revolutionary time that brought great poverty as well as great riches.
Table of Contents
Introduction -- How do we know? -- Life before the Industrial Revolution -- The new iron age -- King Cotton -- Weaving the future -- Child labor -- Violent reaction -- Coal mining -- An age of invention -- Canal mania -- Full steam ahead --The dawn of the railroad age -- Capturing an image -- Messages in the wires -- "Workers of all lands, unite!" -- The arrival of oil -- The power of the voice -- Lighting the way -- The price of progress -- Transatlantic signals -- Into the air -- The assembly line -- What have we learned from the Industrial Revolution?