Eli Whitney Museum - A good place to start for info on the man & his work
Eli Whitney Armory Site - an ongoing excavation by Yale University.
A concise biography
The Cotton Gin - A student's explanation of the gin and how it works.
The Cotton Gin: The invention that brings life to the slave industry
Eli Whitney: A good bio by US History Interactive

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Lowell National Historic Park  Excellent site! How the mills work, tons of information
The Lowell Mill Girls - an early labor movement.  A good essay.
Lives of Lowell Mill Girls - Primary sources from the girls themselves and papers of the time.
Slater's Mill - An informative site with lots of pictures and a few explosions.
Samuel Slater: Father of the American Industrial Revolution
Samuel Slater - A brief biography
 
 

Teacher's Essay: Early Industrialization.  Excellent essay on cotton, slavery, the gin down south and the factories up north.

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Robert Fulton: Engineer & Artist: This is an etext originally published in 1913.  THe text is massive, but the pictures are great!
Robert Fulton - His Life and Its Results - Another great etext.
Paddlewheel Riverboat: Its evolution and survival
steamboats.org: all about steamin' up the Mighty Mississip!
CSS Virginia: great site dedicated to the Civil War ship wrongly called the Merrimac
USS Monitor: a great site dedicated to the ship that went against the Virginia
 

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How Stuff Works - Articles about all sorts of devices and machines... including the steam engine
How the Steam Engine Works - Excellent moving diagrams illustrate this essay...
How the Steam Engine Works - more good diagrams and information
America's First Trains: Good essay and pictures
History of the First Locomotives - A scanned etext, with tons of information
Engines of our Ingenuity - Peter Cooper Article
Peter Cooper's Tom Thumb - A short article and picture.
The Great Locomotive Chase: An excellent account of the role of trains in one Civil War encounter
Capture at Corinth: Corinth, the South's railway hub - worth a look!
 

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The New York State Canal System: Excellent resource, with tons of info about the Erie Canal.
History of the Erie Canal - very detailed, primarily text-based site
Western New York Page - More info on the Erie Canal
 

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Morse & Vail: Inventors of the telegraph.  Great site created by Speedwell Village.
Morse Translator: Translates what you type into Morse Code - odd, but cool
Morse Telegraph of 1844: An article from Scientific American
Telegraph: A great photo and brief overview, from the Smithsonian
The Telegraph: From Inventors' Museum.  A good, easy-to-read essay.
Morse: a biography.  Short, decent overview of his life as a painter and inventor
Samuel Morse and the Telegraph: good, somewhat advanced article.
Telegraph Lore: A site by some people who really love Morse's toy...
 

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CW Weapons, Technology and Medicine - Info on trains, telegraphs, ironclads, and more!
How the South Gathered News... - Article mentions use of telegraph lines
Civil War Tech: Includes a good article on the Monitor and Merrimac - Ironclads
Why the North Won the Civil War: Long article, with excellent info on the impacts of the cotton gin, mills, railroads, and the telegraph.  Worth reading, or at least a text search!

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