Interactive Museum Project-General Research

Topic: Conflict and Compromise: 1800-1900

Project Topic #2

Secondary Sources
1) Database Source:
https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/42-economic-and-technological-developments-1865-1900
How does this source answer your research question?
It provides a well organized timeline displaying the technological innovations from this time period
which I will be able to use for researching further inventors and their creations that benefitted society,
economics, and culture all together in their own individual and unique way.
2) Book Source:
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
How does this source answer your research question?
I already have read this historical novel so I’m familiar with the content. It provides a first person
perspective on the time period which can portray more detail about significant events that have taken
place but are overlooked by textbooks or historians. We see plenty of the main characters using the
innovations that were forged at this time for their various projects or tasks at hand.
3) Primary Source:
http://www.machinesoflovinggrace.com/manuals/Manual-RemingtonNoiseless8-9.jpg
How does this source answer your research question?
The type
4) Primary Source:
https://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/6265
How does this source answer your research question?
Similar to the one about the type writer, this scholarly article will provide me with the necessary
information for finding more out about yet another cultural innovation at this time, barbed wire. This
would be used for farming/herding cattle and then later used for restricting access of private properties
to evolve into defense precautions in the major world wars.
5) Source:
https://www.sutori.com/story/inventors-and-inventions-from-1860-1900
How does this source answer your research question?
It adds even more inventions/innovations for the time to the list I plan on researching and how they
contributed to maintaining continuity as well as fostered change in the lives of urban and rural workers
in United States from 1860-1900.