Curated OER
Industrial Revolution Unit
Eighth graders create their own newspaper and write articles about things related to the Industrial Revolution. They include five different inventions from the time period and explain how they either benefited or harmed society. They...
Calisphere: University of California Libraries
University of California: Calisphere: 1900 1940s: The Rise of Technology
Primary source photographs depicting new technologies and communications at the turn of the 20th century and how lives changed as a result.
Library of Congress
Loc: Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers
All the primary source documents of the Graham Bell Family can be found at this Library of Congress site. An exhaustive site that is interesting to peruse.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Forgotten Inventors
Here is an accounting of a few inventions, most of which were invented in the 1800s, that often are overlooked. Find out about how the can opener was invented as well as that clothing staple, the denim jeans.
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: Art of the Stamp: Model T Ford
View the artwork for a U.S. postage stamp issued in 1998 to commemorate Henry Ford's Model T Ford, built in 1908.