Tariff of Abominations, 87
technological developments:
transfer from Great Britain to
the continent, 123–24; on the
European continent (late 19th
century), 134; in the United
States (late 19th century),
111–12
telegraph: early device, 181; use in
Crimean War, 183. See also
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese;
Morse Code
telegraph companies, 183. See also
American Telegraph Company;
International Telegraph
Company; Magnetic Telegraph
Company; Western Union
telephone subscribers: cities of
Berlin, London, Paris, New York,
and St. Petersburg, 111–12
Telford, Thomas, 56, 190–93; early
church construction projects,
190; honors, 193; London–
Holyhead Road, 190; Menai
Bridge, 192–93; opposition to
president of Institute of Civil
Engineers, 193; participation in
canal building, 190– 92
Ten Hours Act, 73, 169
textile production: in Belgium,
130; in France, 127, 131; in
Japan, 151; in Germany, 128–29,
131; in Russia, 146; in the
United States, 131
Thomas, Sidney Gilchrist, 162
Thorton, 174. See also Fitch, John
Titanic, 166
Tokugawa Shogunate, 150–51. See
also Japan, opening of
Tom Thumb, 95. See also Cooper,
Peter
Tories, 71
Toynbee, Arnold, 3. See also
Lectures on the Industrial
Revolution in England
trade unions, 69, 106–7, 140
transcontinental railroad, 97–101.
See also Ambrose, Stephen;
Army Topographic Corps;
Central Pacific Railroad;
Chinese labor; Credit Mobilier;
Irish labor; Jupiter; Manifest
Destiny; Mormon workers;
Railroad Act of 1862; Union
Pacific Railroad; Whitman, Walt;
Whitney, Asa
Transportation Revolution: Great
Britain, 54–58. See also canals;
railroads; steamboats
Treaty of Paris (1783), 81
Trevithick, Richard, 57, 187, 190,
193–97. See also Catch Me Who
Can; railroads
Tull, Jethro, 31. See also seed
drill
turnpike construction, 89.
See also Cumberland Road;
National Road
Union Pacific Railroad, 98. See also
transcontinental railroad
urban growth, 19th-century United
States,
113–
14;
problems in the
cities: life expectancy, 114;
overcrowding, 114
utilitarian thinkers, 169. See also
Benthem, Jeremy; Mill, John Stuart
value, labor theory of, 43. See also
economic theory; Smith, Adam
Van Buren, Martin, 181
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 105
Vaucanson’s loom, 179
Voight, Henry, 174
Walpole, Sir Robert, 29
War of 1812, 81, 86–87
Washington, George, 81
water frame, 58, See also Arkwright,
Richard; factory system
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