Technology and the Building of America
- Historic Batsto Village, NJ [Revolutionary War era bog-iron
making community]
- Alexander Hamilton's Report on Manufactures
(1791) [excerpt]
- The Erie Canal (-- a megasite:
images, maps, diagrams, music)
- The Erie Canal
- Harpers Ferry National Historical Park [West Virginia]
- The Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts
- Whole Cloth -- Textile Manufacturing
and the Growth of American Science and Technology
- Mission Mill (in Salem, Oregon): enjoy a self-guided
tour, or visit the Mission Mill homepage
- Bob's Red Mill, Milwaukie, OR [still working grain mill, from the 19th century: overview
[including virtual tour] and history
- Technology in America -- from the telegraph to the underground
railway
- The 1876 Centennial Exposition: Cover Illustration | What
Happened at the Centennial?
- United States Patent and Trademark
Museum
- The Wright Brothers: Development of Manned
Flight
- Riverboats
and Riverboat technology: An Exhibit at the Shelburne Museum
- The Wright Stuff -- an online exploration
- Wright Brothers' Flying Machine [PSB Nova Program, and Meta-website]
- Edison's Miracle of Light [PBS American Experience
program]
- Thomas A. Edison National Historical Site [Menlo Park, NJ]
- The personal papers of Thomas Alva Edison
- Thomas A. Edison: The Research Laboratory
- Edison After 40 -- A Virtual Exhibit at the Smithsonian
Institution
- The Telephone: on Alexander Graham
Bell
- Alexander Graham Bell papers at the Library
of Congress
- Nikola Tesla -- Master of Lightning
- The Iron Road (building the transcontinental railroad, mid
-19th century)
- Great Projects: The Building of America (a
major website: includes tours of projects and interviews)
- The West (Ken Burns / PBS) and direct link to Episode
5, on building the transcontinental railroad
- Chicago: City of the Century [PBS American Experience
program: many links and photographs]
- Images of 20th Century Industry -- Photographs from the Library
of Congress
- Technology in photographs [from Online
Archive of California]
- Ford Motor Company: Highland
Park Workers, 1915

The Wright [Brothers] Cycle Shop (recreated in Greenfield Village)