Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Industrial Revolution Inventors

Louis Pasture
Florence Nightingale
Joseph Lister
James Watt
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Richard Arkwright
Samuel F.B. Morse
Ludwig van Beethoven
Emily Davies
Alfred Nobel
Frederic Chopin
Charles Darwin
Thomas Edison
John Dalton
Claude Monet
Henry Ford
Eli Whitney
Robert Fulton
Jethro Toll
Dmitri Mendeleyev
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abraham Darby
John Kay
James Hargreaves
Samuel Crompton
Edward Cartwright
Nicholas Cugnot


You will choose one of the people from the Industrial Revolution listed on the blog. Your research will include the importance of his/her work during the Industrial Revolution and how it affected the world. You will TYPE your information about you person. (1-2 pages long on a separate sheet of paper, typed, resources included) about how that person affected the Industrial Revolution. You will also need to include a picture of your inventor and one picture of one invention. Make sure you include supporting details, information about his/her inventions, and interesting facts about the person. Also, please focus on the person’s life during the revolution from 1800-1910. The following websites may help you get started.

http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson7.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.main.htm

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