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Innovative Inventions
Help your scholars get a grasp on the chronology of the Industrial Revolution with this "Innovative Inventions" worksheet. They discover what year various items were invented, and then create a timeline placing each invention and...
PBS
Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Charles Goodyear
One-page profile of influential innovator, Charles Goodyear, whose vision and ideas created vulcanized rubber that would become an industrial staple in manufacturing goods.
Other
Rubber Manufacturers Association: Rubber Fa Qs
A quick overview of the developments of vulcanized rubber and synthetic rubber.
PBS
American Experience: Technology Timeline: 1752 1990
Short descriptions of important technological innovations produced in America and the date of their introduction.