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Eerie Canal
The Eerie Canal was started in 1817 and was the first major canal. It was used a lot to transport ships and boats alike to and from Lake Eerie and the Atlantic Ocean. It also made it easier to transport materials from the East coast to the Midwest. The success of the Eerie Canal boosted the enthusiasm to create more canals. No longer did certain people have to rely on other routes that took lots of time, they could now use series of canals and rivers to bring their materials straight there. -
The Mechanical Reaper
The mechanical reaper, invented by Cyrus McCormick in 1834. It made it possible for one farmer to be able to compete the workload that would originally require five farmers to fulfill. Pulled by horses, it would 'reap' the crops for the farmer as it was pulled along. Farmers could switch to various crops for it to harvest, and also allowed the farmers to grow more food without having to worry about the labor when it came to harvesting. It was sent in pieces and required assembling. -
The Electromagnetic Telegraph
The electromagnetic telegraph was used to send messages from miles away, it was invented by painter and scientist Samuel F. B. Morse and Leonard Gale. The very first one could only send messagers up to 10 miles away. Wanting to make it so that communications could expand to hundreds of miles Morse asked Congress to fund the expirement. Congress funded him with the money to build a forty mile telegraph line that was to spread from Baltimore to Washington. "What hath God wrought?" -
The Steel Plow
The first seel plow was invented by John Deere in 1837. It made plowing fields much easier for farmers and people alike. It was able to plow through the hard soil very easily and was much more capable for than the plows that already existed. It didn't require as much animal power as previous plows did and allowed farmers to switch the animals pulling the plow from oxen to horses. -
Vulcanized Rubber
Invented by Charles Goodyear in 1839. Vulcanized rubber was better than the untreated India rubber. It didn't freeze when cold temperatures came to be and didn't melt in the hot temperatures. It was truly inovative and made things easier. It was used to protect peoples boots and was also used in car tires. It is still used for car tires even to this day due to it's indespensiblity to the automibile industry. -
The Sewing Machine
Patentented by Elias Howe in 1846, the sewing machine was originally used in shoe facatories. It helped industry by making the process of manufacturing items, such as clothes. It quickly became indespensible because it reduced the time it would take to make clothes by hand by a sinificant amount. Due to the increasing stock of clothes prices also fell and other working people could then afford to buy the clothing. The time was shortened even more with the invention of the foot treadle. -
The Telephone
Invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, the telephone was an enigmatic invention. It was able to send sounds over a steady stream of electricity rather that short busts (Morse Code). It was revolutionary to the American people and made communication much simpler. By 1900, there were over one million telephone in use around the United States. This was the beginning for all modern telephones today -
The Marconi Radio
Invented by Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi in 1895. It was a system that sent electromagnetic telegraph messages through the air. In the early 1900s when "wireless tranmissions" came to be it made it possible to send vioces as well instead of just the telegraph messages. By the 1920 commercial radio and broadcast stations were using it to spread music and entertainment programs along with messages and other things to keep the people entertained. Modern forms are still used today. -
Television
Invented by Vladmir Zworykin in 1923. He first invented the iconoscope first and patents it. The iconoscope is the part of the television that processes the image for broadcasting. In 1924 he also submitted a patent for the kinescope. It is the part of the television that recieves the image in order for it to be broadcasted. He showed his new, fully capable, television in 1929. -
The Computer
Originally invented in the 1940s, the first computer that becomes commercially avaliable was created in 1951. It is known as the UNIVAC, or UNIVersal Automatic Computer. It allowed for several terminals to all be directly connected to one computer. At first computers were huge machines that would fill entire ooms with all that allowed them to work. As technology adavanced they eventually became the small platforms that we see and have today. -
Sources.......
All information was from the hardcopy of the textbook and the online textbook.
http://my.hrw.com/tabnav/controller.jsp?isbn=9780547521602
One other source was used for the year of invention.. http://www.american-inventor.com/cyrus-mccormick.aspx
