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Samuel Slater invented the the textile mill which thenforth hence initiated the mill industry
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By creating the cotton gin, Eli Whitney revolutionized the cotton industry by making it more efficient. This then led to a cotton boom, which increased demand for slavery in the South.
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Eli Whitney gets the credit for the brilliant idea of innterchangeable parts. They made machines easier to assemble and repair, and they made industry more profitable.
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Robert Fulton invented the first steamboat, the Clermont. It allowed goods to be moved more easily. This therefore increased trade and profits.
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The locomotive (in America, made by Peter Cooper) increased speed of transportation and travel (goods and people), led to an economic boom, and increased westward expansion.
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Cyrus McCormick invented the harvesting machine reaper which caused the increase of wheat production because it could be cut quickly and efficiently. This was the beginnings of advertising market.
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Samuel F. B. Morse invented the telegraph with the intent of making communication easier.
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John Deere is the one who had the idea and acted upon the thought of a steel plow. It then made farming easier.
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Isaac Singer invented the sewing machine for what America knew it. An intended benefit was that clothing production was made more efficient.
