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
  • View Edison's lab notebooks -- page by page
  • View Edison's scrapbooks -- page by page
• 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)