Early Inventions ThreadSpinning Mill Builder Samuel Slater Year
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 Mc. Cormick • 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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