D.P.Todd Virtual Learning Commons Home Page: Industrial Revolution

The mills at Wicksbridge are imaginary, but their planning, construction, and operation are quite typical of mills developed in New England throughout the nineteenth century.

Hugely entertaining and wildly offbeat, here is a book that combines engaging, humorous text with illustrations that at once set the tone of the book. Take a peek at germs in 1683 through the first microscope. Stumble upon the idea of vaccinations with Louis Pasteur as he tests his chickens for cholera. Watch Florence Nightingale fight germs and sickness with a revolutionary new idea: cleanliness. Drift gently into Alexander Fleming's germ plate with the mold spore that enables the discovery of penicillin.