A biography of the English mechanical genius who, in 1789, defied laws forbidding the emigration of textile workers and established the American textile industr

This study of antebellum industrialisation in several communities in rural Massachusetts illuminates what industrialisation meant in the early to mid nineteenth

Contains photographs, drawings, and maps that depict the physical survivals of technologies of the American industrial revolution, most of which are displayed i

Follows the development of the American Industrial Revolution from 1793 to 1850, including the major industrial inventions and advances of the time period.