Industrial Revolution

Evidence of warming temperatures have been detected as early as the 1830s.

Since World's Fairs began in the 19th century, they have provided a stage to showcase new inventions and technologies, some of which became integral to daily life.

As England and the United States transformed under the Industrial Revolution, World Fairs served to drum up support for the shift.

The rise of mills and factories drew an influx of people to cities—and placed new demand on urban infrastructures.

While the Industrial Revolution generated new opportunities and economic growth, it also introduced pollution and acute hardships for workers.

The period between the late 1800s and the early 1900s saw a boom in innovations that would take the world by storm.

An 1830 battle between steam and horse power marked the moment when the Industrial Revolution changed transportation forever.

Over a 75-year period, up to 200,000 indigent children went from city to farm.

The rapid advancement of mass production and transportation made life a lot faster.

Uprisings against a new economic structure imposed by the Industrial Revolution gave rise to the insult "luddite."

In 1900, 18 percent of all American workers were under the age of 16.

“Luddite” is now a blanket term used to describe people who dislike new technology, but its origins date back to an early 19th-century labor movement that railed against mechanized manufacturing.

The first modern flushable toilet was described in 1596 by a godson of Queen Elizabeth I.

The 19th century was a period of great change and rapid industrialization. The iron and steel industry spawned new construction materials, the railroads connected the country and the discovery of oil provided a new source of fuel. The discovery of the S...

The Industrial Revolution of the 1800s, a time of great growth in technologies and inventions, transformed rural societies into industrialized, urban ones.

The Homestead strike was an industrial lockout and strike at the Homestead steel mill in Pennsylvania. The strike, which began on July 1, 1892, pitted one of the most powerful new corporations, Carnegie Steel Company, against the nation’s strongest trade union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. It culminated in a battle between workers and private security agents on July 6, 1892.

Child labor, the use of children and teens in often-unsafe working conditions, peaked during the Industrial Revolution but is now regulated by child labor laws.