Industrial Revolution – spreading from Britain to Europe and America

HistoryRevolutions & Industrial AgeAges 13–14

A map of Western Europe and North America paired with a timeline from 1760 to 1870 shows how the Industrial Revolution began in Britain and then spread to the United States, France, and Germany. Students drag the timeline marker to watch industrialised regions widen and inventions appear where they were born. Click an invention marker to learn how that machine changed production and everyday life.