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Early Inventions
Thread-Spinning Mill
• Builder: Samuel Slater
• Year: 1789
• Apprentice in one of Arkwright’s Factories (Great Britain)
• Produced cotton thread
• Rapid rate of production
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 wouldn’t be
produced until 1850 in Great Britain
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
Telegraph
• Inventor: Samuel Morse• Year: 1844• Revolutionized communication• Morse Code• Factories in the East could now communicate with markets in the West
Metal Plow
• Inventor: John Deere
• Year: 1837
• Blacksmith
• Tough plains soil could not be plowed by cast iron plows (sticking)
• Assisted farmers greatly
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
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
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
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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