The Industrial Revolution

Discover the inventors, business leaders, and ordinary workers who created our modern industrial world in a fascinating course taught by a top-rated professor.

• By This Professor
• 01: Industrialization Is Good for You
• 02: Why Was Britain First?
• 03: The Agricultural Revolution
• 04: Cities and Manufacturing Traditions
• 05: The Royal Shipyards
• 06: The Textile Industry
• 07: Coal Mining-Powering the Revolution
• 08: Iron-Coking and Puddling
• 09: Wedgwood and the Pottery Business
• 10: Building Britain's Canals
• 11: Steam Technology and the First Railways
• 12: The Railway Revolution
• 13: Isambard Kingdom Brunel-Master Engineer
• 14: The Machine-Tool Makers
• 15: The Worker's-Eye View
• 16: Poets, Novelists, and Factories
• 17: How Industry Changed Politics
• 18: Dismal Science-The Economists
• 19: American Pioneers-Whitney and Lowell
• 20: Steamboats and Factories in America
• 21: Why Europe Started Late
• 22: Bismarck, De Lesseps, and Eiffel
• 23: John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil
• 24: Andrew Carnegie and American Steel
• 25: American Industrial Labor
• 26: Anglo-American Contrasts
• 27: Electric Shocks and Surprises
• 28: Mass-Producing Bicycles and Cars
• 29: Taking Flight-The Dream Becomes Reality
• 30: Industrial Warfare, 1914-1918
• 31: Expansion and the Great Depression
• 32: Mass Production Wins World War II
• 33: The Information Revolution
• 34: Asian Tigers-The New Industrialized Nations
• 35: Environmental Paradoxes
• 36: The Benign Transformation