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