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Title: Early Inventions


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Early Inventions
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Thread-Spinning Mill
  • Builder Samuel Slater
  • Year 1789
  • Apprentice in one of Arkwrights Factories (Great
    Britain)
  • Produced cotton thread
  • Rapid rate of production

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Steamboat
  • Builder Robert Fulton
  • Year 1807
  • First practical steamboat was called the Clermont
  • Made traveling on river easier and faster
  • Canals
  • Used for trade and the moving of raw materials
  • First oceangoing steamship wouldnt be produced
    until 1850 in Great Britain

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Cotton Gin
  • Inventor Eli Whitney
  • Year 1794
  • Need for cotton by factories in the North
  • A worker could produce fifty time more cotton
    fiber
  • Increase of slave labor
  • Cotton Kingdom owners of large plantations

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Telegraph
  • Inventor Samuel Morse
  • Year 1844
  • Revolutionized
  • communication
  • Morse Code
  • Factories in the East could
  • now communicate with
  • markets in the West

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Metal Plow
  • Inventor John Deere
  • Year 1837
  • Blacksmith
  • Tough plains soil could not be plowed by cast
    iron plows (sticking)
  • Assisted farmers greatly

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Mechanical Reaper
  • Inventor Cyrus McCormick
  • Year 1831
  • Cut wheat many times faster
  • than a human worker could
  • Enabled farmers to cultivate
  • more land with fewer workers
  • Great for the prairies of the Midwest

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Power Loom
  • Builder Francis Lowell
  • Year 1814
  • Improved versions of English machines
  • Brought spinning and weaving
  • Allowed textile work to be done a lot faster

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Sewing Machine
  • Inventor Elias Howe
  • Year 1846
  • Made producing clothing efficient
  • Made cloths less expensive so even the lower and
    middle classes could dress like the wealthier
    Americans
  • Ties back to cotton

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Vulcanized Rubber
  • Inventor Charles Goodyear
  • Year 1839
  • Made working with rubber easier (sticking when
    hot and hard when cold)
  • Removed sulfur and then heated so it would
    retained its elasticity
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