The Industrial Revolution, which began three hundred years ago, was a period of unprecedented technological, economic and social change that completely transformed British culture from a largely rural, static society with limited production and division of labour into the world's first modern industrial society.
Throughout 2009 the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust will be celebrating 300 years of the Industrial Revolution with various events and activities.
This exhibition uses records held by the Parliamentary Archives to explore and illustrate technological developments during the Industrial Revolution.