The Industrial Revolution By mrsoskil Dec 1, 1789 Samuel Slater and Moses Brown Built the First American Textile Mill Mar 14, 1794 Eli Whitney Receives a Patent for the Cotton Gin Jan 1, 1798 Eli Whitney Creates Firearms with Interchangeable Parts Jan 1, 1803 Congress Votes to Built a National Road from the Atlantic Coast to Ohio Aug 14, 1807 Robert Fulton invents the First Steamboat (Clermont) Jan 1, 1810 Francis Lowell's Textile Mill Puts Weaving, Spinning, and Dying Cloth all in the Same Factory Nov 20, 1811 Work Begins on the National Road Jul 4, 1817 Work Starts on the Erie Canal Aug 1, 1818 National Road Opens to Traffic from Maryland to the Ohio River Oct 26, 1825 Erie Canal is Finished Aug 28, 1830 Peter Cooper uses "Tom Thumb", the First Steam Locomotive to Pull Passengers Jan 1, 1836 Harriet Hansen & Other Women Workers Strike against the Lowell Mills
