MAPS OF HISTORY · INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION · MAPS BY YEAR · 1869The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914 · THE MAP IN 1869
Map of the industrial world in 1869
Suez and the golden spike
The industrial world in 1869: Suez and the golden spike. Since 1861, 7 territories changed status on this map: including Japan, Siam (mod. Thailand), Burma and 4 more.
1869 · THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1750–1914 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Atack: nineteenth-century US canals, March2017 · Atack: historical US railroads1826–1911, revised2023 · Bartholomew: Literary & Historical Atlas of America,1911 · Bartholomew: Literary and Historical Atlas of Asia,1912 · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 · Imperial Gazetteer of India,Atlas1909: railways · Natural Earth physical geography · Maps of History: industrial geography reconstruction record
Source details Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University. Shapefile metadata explicitly grants free use; source segment dates and identities retained.. Author metadata grants free use by anyone with source acknowledgement Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University. Shapefile metadata explicitly grants free use; source segment dates and identities retained.. Author metadata grants free use by anyone with source acknowledgement John George Bartholomew,1911; economic maps and named transport routes. Original cartographer died1920; independent geographic reconstruction.. Public-domain original historical cartography; geographic facts independently reconstructed John George Bartholomew,1912; economic mapspp40–41,72–73, products54–55; regional railway maps and route gazetteer. Original author died1920. Only geographic facts independently reconstructed; ebook text/brand not republished.. Public-domain original historical cartography; geographic facts independently reconstructed Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Selected, combined, reprojected and corrected by Maps of History as described per layer.. CC BY4.0 Digital South Asia Library, University of Chicago; maps22–25 and provincial maps. Later plates locate routes, not early opening dates.. Public-domain historical government atlas; geographic facts independently reconstructed Made with Natural Earth; present coastlines support physical clipping, not historical political boundaries.. Public domain Named districts and route stations from the linked published atlases. District perimeters are interpretive economic regions, not sovereign borders or parcel-level industrial land use.. Original independent thematic reconstructions; source artwork not embedded Country fills apply the existing educational industrialisation stages to dated published polities. They do not imply that development was uniform throughout each empire. Economic districts represent thematic regions. Source dates and reconstruction methods are recorded separately.
reconstruction: 1861.3 · reconstruction: 1869.9 · reconstruction: Named district within chapter chronology · vector: 1636–1889 · vector: 1727–1899 · vector: 1762–1889 · vector: 1769–1889 · vector: 1775–1872 · vector: 1803–1889 · vector: 1811–1869 · vector: 1815–1869 · vector: 1815–1937 · vector: 1820–1869 · vector: 1820–1872 · vector: 1820–1876 · vector: 1820–1899 · vector: 1822–1872 · vector: 1822–1894 · vector: 1828–1884 · vector: 1830–1876 · vector: 1834–1904 · vector: 1840–1869 · vector: 1840–1872 · vector: 1840–1894 · vector: 1840–1904 · vector: 1840–1978 · vector: 1842–1889 · vector: 1842–1894 · vector: 1842–1907 · vector: 1842–1912 · vector: 1848–1884 · vector: 1848–1935 · vector: 1849–1904 · vector: 1853–1869 · vector: 1853–1876 · vector: 1853–1879 · vector: 1853–1884 · vector: 1856–1869 · vector: 1856–1870 · vector: 1856–1872 · vector: 1856–1876 · vector: 1856–1879 · vector: 1856–1884 · vector: 1856–1889 · vector: 1856–1894 · vector: 1857–1872 · vector: 1857–1876 · vector: 1859–1869 · vector: 1859–1872 · vector: 1859–1879 · vector: 1859–1884 · vector: 1859–1894 · vector: 1860–1869 · vector: 1860–1884 · vector: 1860–1894 · vector: 1861 · vector: 1861–1869 · vector: 1861–1872 · vector: 1861–1894 · vector: 1862–1872 · vector: 1864–1869 · vector: 1864–1872 · vector: 1864–1876 · vector: 1864–1921 · vector: 1865–1914 · vector: 1865–1915 · vector: 1866–1869 · vector: 1866–1870 · vector: 1866–1872 · vector: 1866–1876 · vector: 1866–1879 · vector: 1866–1884 · vector: 1866–1904 · vector: 1866–2023 · vector: 1868–1869 · vector: 1868–1870 · vector: 1868–1872 · vector: 1868–1876 · vector: 1868–1879 · vector: 1869 · vector: Erie Canal completed1825 / source2017
Layer records and reconstruction methods
What changes on the map
On the ground the jute mills along the Hooghly around Calcutta the cotton mill belt of Bombay and Ahmedabad, built by Indian merchants from 1854 the Lake Superior iron ranges, extending from Marquette to the Mesabi Related maps
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