Modern History Sourcebook: Leeds Woollen Workers Petition, 1786 This petition by workers in Leeds (a major center of wool manufacture in Yorkshire) appeared in a local newspapers in 1786. They are complaining about the effects of machines on the previously well-paid skilled workers. http: //fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1786machines.ht...
Morse Code and Phonetic Alphabets A listing of the Morse code, including punctuation and non-English letters. http: //soton.ac.uk/~scp93ch/morse/
On the Lower East Side Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century http: //acad.smumn.edu/History/contents.html
Overview of the Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution, as it know called by historians, changed the ways by how the world produced its goods http: //msu.edu/user/brownlow/indrev.htm
Richard Guest: The Steam Loom, 1823 Information about Richard Guest,The Steam Loom, 1823. http: //fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1823cotton.html...