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Spinning Jenny
In the 17th century, England was famous for its woollen and worsted cloth. Cotton processing was tiny: in 1701 only 1,985,868 pounds (900,775 kg) of cotton-wool was imported into England.The idea was developed by Hargreaves as a metal frame with eight wooden spindles at one end. A set of eight rovings was attached to a beam on that frame. The rovings when extended passed through two horizontal bars of wood that could be clasped together. -
Slave Trade
Slavery was practiced throughout the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries, and African-American slaves helped build the economic foundations of the new nation. The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 solidified the importance of slavery to the South’s economy. By the mid-19th century, America’s westward expansion, along with a growing abolition movement in the North, would provoke a great debate over slavery that would tear the nation apart in the bloody American Civil War. -
Cottin Gin
The Cotton Gion was made to make cotton picking easier for slaves.But it ended up making owners want more slaves then before.Cotton was really wanted in that time so the slaves had to work twice as hard. -
The cult of domesticity
The cult of domesticity was during the 1800's. Men believed that women should stay at home and should not do any work outside of the home. There were four things they believed that women should be: More religious than men. -
Morse Code
Beginning in 1836, the American artist Samuel F. B. Morse, the American physicist Joseph Henry, and Alfred Vail developed an electrical telegraph system.Samuel Morse demonstrated the ability of a telegraph system to transmit information over wires.The information was sent as a series of electrical signals. -
Typewriter
The first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented in 1868 by Americans Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.It made it easier to write other then writing with ink.
