Secondary
1. "The Agricultural Revolution." About.com Inventors. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://
inventors.about.com/od/indrevolution/a/AgriculturalRev.htm>.
This helped us with an overview about what the agricultural revolution was about. It also helped us with deciding which inventions to use. This was an excellent secondary source.
2. "Agricultural Inventions." Agricultural Inventions. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.inventionpop.com/agriculturalinventions.html>.
This secondary source had good insight on the cotton gin and John Deere. It also had some dates that helped with understanding the time involved in creating this invention.
3. "The Flow of History." FC109: The Agricultural Background to the Industrial Revolution -. N.p., n.d. Web.
24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.flowofhistory.com/units/eme/17/FC109>.
This website, hence the name "flowofhistory.com", was good for getting to know the general time scheme of the Agricultural Revolution. In addition it talked about the effect on the Industrial Revolution due to the inventions created.
4. "Innovations of the Industrial Revolution." The Industrial Revolution. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012.
<http://industrialrevolution.sea.ca/innovations.html>.
A majority of the information we used from this site was in the section about Jethro Tull and his contributions to the Agricultural Revolution. It talks about the seed rill and his other invention, the horse hoe.
5. "81.02.06: The Industrial Revolution." 81.02.06: The Industrial Revolution. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012.
<http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/2/81.02.06.x.html>.
This website discusses the importance of the Agricultural Revolution in the textile industries. Also, it tells how the food produced could feed more people and could be produced more efficiently.
6. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/pae/botany/botany_map/articles/
article_30.html>.
This website told a lot about the cotton gin. It gave a detailed description about how it operates and the results you get when using it. It also had a picture of how the gin operated which gave us a visual of how it operates.
7. "Iron and Steel Industry." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.history.com/topics/iron-and-steel-industry>.
This website told about the boom in the steel and iron industry, resulting in more machines created using these materials. This also created a big increase in jobs at the time.
8. "Deere, John." Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. 16 Oct. 2012<http://www.encyclopedia.com>.
This site gave a history of John Deere and his contributions to the Industrial Revolution and Agricultural Revolution. It has several dates including a deep history of his life, which helped tremendously.
9. "ARS : Home." ARS : Home. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.ars.usda.gov/Main/docs.htm>.
This helped us find some of the patents for our inventions we chose. It was definitely an important secondary source.
10. "Cotton Gin." Economic History Services. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/phillips.cottongin>.
This website talked about the cotton gin in detail. It has many tables about the effects that this invention had on the productivity and efficiency of production after the Agricultural Revolution.
11. "The Impact of John Deere's Plow." The Impact of John Deere's Plow. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.lib.niu.edu/2001/iht810102.html>.
This secondary source contained information on the steel plow and the need for additional food for the rising population. It told about the effect the new steel plow had on the productivity of plowing land and tilling soil.
12. "The Agricultural Revolution." The Agricultural Revolution. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://web.missouri.edu/~brente/agrirev.htm>.
This didn't have much on it, but what it did have really helped us a lot. It had some details on the social advances and consequences of this revolution.
13. "Agricultural Revolution." BrainPOP. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/worldhistory/agriculturalrevolution/preview.weml>.
This site has helped me with many other topics in the past. It had a video on the Agricultural Revolution and told about
how this changed the way that people lived and worked.
14. "Article Not Found." Cambridge Journals. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online>.
This was just a simple site to get us started on our search for more details of the spinning jenny.
15. "The Seed Drill." The Seed Drill. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://issworldhistory.forumotion.net/t1171-the-seed-drill>.
This forum provided some useful information. Some people described how important and how successful it was and why.
Primary
1. "Modern World History Chap 9." : Seed Drill. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://sjoncaschapter9.blogspot.com/2011/02/seed-drill.html>.
This site gave us a cool seed drill photo for one of our website pictures.
2. "John Deere Pics." John Deere Pics. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.retiredtractors.com/Plows/jdpics.html>.
This website had a few primary sources inside of it. It had a picture of John Deere and his steel plow. These pictures helped us understand what John Deere looked like and what he contributed to the time period.
3. "Fall Plowing, by Grant Wood." Fall Plowing, by Grant Wood. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/time/1931/wood.html>.
This primary source showed what a steel plow looked like on a tractor back when they were first commisioned for farmers.
4. "Eli Whitney." Eli Whitney. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://virtualology.com/ELI-WHITNEY.ORG/>.
This website contains a picture of Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin. this helped us get a picture for the home page of the website.
5. "The History of the County of Derby." Google Books. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://books.google.com/books?id=r8kKAAAAYAAJ>.
This is a link to a patent of James Hargreaves invention, the spinning jenny. It helped us see what James Hargreaves look like and gave us a reference of how average people looked back then.
6. "Change in Agriculture:." Google Books. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://books.google.com/books?id=RhKcV7J3uWUC>.
This showed us a patent of John Deere's steel plow. It showed us what the original mode functioned like and its importance.
7. "Industrial Revolution." Industrial Revolution. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/time/victorian/vindust.html>.
This is a picture of an average family in the time of the Industrial Revolution. It helped give us an understanding of the look of common folks in this time.
8. "Machines to Cut Grains." About.com Inventors. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://
inventors.about.com/od/rstartinventions/a/reaper.htm>.
This website had a picture to the top right of a reaper, an invention made in the Industrial Revolution that almost made our list of inventions.
9. "SPINNING-JENNY." Google Books. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.google.com/patents/
US453399?pg=PA3>.
This website showed the patent and description of how the spinning jenny operates. It gave us insight on how it operates rather than what it just creates.
10. "The Cotton Gin | The Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop." The Cotton Gin | The Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.eliwhitney.org/new/museum/eli-whitney/cotton-gin>.
This site contains three patents of the cotton gin created by Eli Whitney. it gave us information on how the cotton gin worked.
11. "IMPROVEMENT IN COOLING AND TEMPERING CAST CAST-STEEL PLOW-PLATES." Google Books. N.p.,
n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.google.com/patents/US41464?pg=PA2>.
This is a patent for the steel plow. It talks about how each part works and operates to help it function as a whole.
12. "Reaper Razor." Google Books. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.google.com/patents/
US5022154?dq=reaper>.
This is a patent for the reaper razor. It labels each individual part of the reaper razor and tells the functionality of it.
13. "Cotton Gin – Dictionary Term." Cotton Gin – Dictionary Term. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.rawrdenim.com/dictionary/c/cotton-gin/>.
This website had a photo of one of the first cotton gins made in the Industrial Revolution. It was a good image that could be used for our page on the cotton gin.
14. "Original New York Times Civil War Newspapers, 1861-1865." The New York Times Store. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.nytstore.com/Original-New-York-Times-Civil-War-Newspapers-1861-1865_p_387.html>.
This is a newspaper article about the Civil War after the Industrial Revolution and the effects the Industrial Revolution had on the Civil War.
15. "Norwich University Archives & Special Collections." U ». N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://library2.norwich.edu/catablog/tag/u/>.
This website is a newspaper article with a picture of a man operating a cotton gin.
16. "Spinning Jennydetails." Spinning Jenny [image 1686x997 Pixels 75]. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Antisell-HandbookOfTheUsefulArts/pages/109-Spinning-Jenny/1686x997-q75.html>.
This website told us a bit more about the spinning jenny. It told us a bit about how it works and gave us a nice picture too.
17. "Portfolio." Whitney Cotton Gin, Courtroom Model, 1800. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://americanenterprise.si.edu/portfolio/whitney-cotton-gin-courtroom-model-1800/>.
This site went in depth about the cotton gin. It told us about how it sparked many things like more slavery. A primary document was shown too.
18. BBC News. BBC, n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/ZA1pL6NcT4ynMeLChiyaLg>.
This told us about how improvements were made to the spinning jenny. This website told us when and where it was created.
19. "Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History." W. Willis: James Hargreaves Spinning Jenny of 1764 (156.4J23). N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/156.4J23>.
A good picture of the spinning jenny helped us understand it better. Some important details were given too.
20. "Seed Drill." Agricultural Manufacturer Rajkot. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.hariharindustries.net/seed-drill.html>.
This website sells actual seed drills created by Jethro Tull. These seed rills are new but based on Jethro Tull's revolutionary innvention.
21. "Agricultural Revolution." AP World History Wiki /. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://apwh.pbworks.com/w/page/7624322/Agricultural%20Revolution>.
This is a picture of the seed drill. It also has a section about the farmers and landowners who had these.
22. "Questions about Grain Drills.... - Page 2." Questions about Grain Drills.... - Page 2. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/owning-operating/138004-questions-about-grain-drills-2.html>.
This is a forum post about seed drills and people posted pictures of theirs and one post in particular from back in the 1800's. These pictures helped us to see the difference between the two versions of seed drills.
23. "Tull: Seed Drill." Fine Art America. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://fineartamerica.com/featured/tull-seed-drill-granger.html>.
This website contained a photograph of a seed drill used and created in the Industrial Revolution.
24. "G. Mick Smith, PhD: 11/23/09." G. Mick Smith, PhD: 11/23/09. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2012. <http://gmicksmithsocialstudies.blogspot.com/2009_11_23_archive.html>.
This website contained a picture of a man using a seed drill. The photo gave us an idea of the size of a seed drill compared to a farmer who used it.
25. "JTT Presents: A Little Known Chapter of History." : Made in China. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2012. <http://sophos-square.blogspot.com/2012/06/made-in-china-chinese-inventions-2.html>.
This website had a photo in it of a large area of farmland tilled by a seed drill. It shows the shear size of how much a seed drill can plow.