Chapter 12

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    Chapter 12

  • Richard Arkwright invents the water frame

  • Samuel Slater forms his own company

  • Robert Fulton tested his first steamboat

  • Clermont traveled up Hudson River

  • Aaron Ogden sued Thomas Gibbons

  • Peter Cooper built the Tom Thumb

  • Samuel F B Morse perfected the telegraph

  • Samuel Slater dies

  • More than 500 steamboats were in use in the US

  • 2800 miles of railroad track

  • Lowell Female Labor Reform Association was formed

  • Sarah Bagley was elected vice president of the New England Working Men's As

  • Safety pin invented

  • First transcontinental line was finished

  • Samuel Morse died