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The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914

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The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914 told in 12 chapters on an interactive situation map, with 24 dated maps and 69 battles, turning points and sites of memory, each drawn where it happened. This page is the index: every chapter, map and place as its own page.

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The chapters

Why Britain industrialised first
CHAPTER 1 · 1750
Cotton and the factory system
CHAPTER 2 · 1800
Steam power, coal and iron
CHAPTER 3 · 1820
Early railways and Railway Mania
CHAPTER 4 · 1850
Urbanisation and the Factory Acts
CHAPTER 5 · 1851
Luddites, Peterloo and Chartism
CHAPTER 6 · 1848
Industrial Revolution in Europe
CHAPTER 7 · 1870
Second Industrial Revolution
CHAPTER 8 · 1913
Industrial Revolution in America
CHAPTER 9 · 1890
Industrialisation of Meiji Japan
CHAPTER 10 · 1910
Great Divergence and global trade
CHAPTER 11 · 1913
Impact of the Industrial Revolution
CHAPTER 12 · 1914

Industrial Revolution maps by year

c. 1750c. 1785c. 1800c. 18201830c. 1840APR 18481850185118601870189019001913c. 1750c. 1806c. 1830c. 185018611869189019101913AUG 1914

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Battles, events and sites of memory

● Amsterdam● Ancoats, Manchester● Arrhenius and the greenhouse effect◆ Ashio copper mine pollution● BASF at Ludwigshafen● Bombay cotton mills● Boulton and Watt● Bridgewater Canal● Brussels–Mechelen railway◆ Cape Coast Castle● Carnegie steel and the Homestead strike● Chicago stockyards and Haymarket● Chinese workers on the Central Pacific● City of London as world banker● Coalbrookdale and the Iron Bridge● Cockerill works at Seraing◆ Congo Free State rubber regime● Cromford Mill● Daimler, Benz and the first motor cars● De Wendel ironworks at Hayange● Dhaka muslins● Egyptian cotton boom● Ellis Island● Factory and Public Health Acts● First Luddite raid at Arnold◆ First cholera outbreak in Britain● First transcontinental railroad● Ford’s moving assembly line● Founding of FIAT● George Hudson and Railway Mania◆ Great Famine in South India● Great Northern Coalfield◆ Huskar Pit disaster● Japan’s colonisation of Korea● Kennington Common Chartist rally● Krupp works at Essen● Le Creusot ironworks● Leipzig–Dresden railway● Little Ireland, Manchester◆ Liverpool and the slave trade● London and Birmingham Railway● Lowell mills and mill girls● Merthyr Tydfil ironworks● Mulhouse cotton industry● New Lanark◆ Newport Rising● Opening of Yokohama to trade● Osaka Spinning Company● Panama Canal◆ Peterloo Massacre● Plug Plot Riots● Quarry Bank Mill, Styal● Rainhill trials● Rawfolds Mill attack● Saltaire● Second International● Shanghai treaty port● Siemens and AEG in Berlin◆ Silesian weavers’ revolt● Singapore● Stockton & Darlington Railway● Suez Canal◆ Sugar plantations in Jamaica● Suzhou & the Yangzi delta● Swindon Works● Swing Riots● Tomioka Silk Mill● Tyneside coal● Yawata Steel Works

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