Industrail Revolution

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    Industrail Revolution

  • Cotton gin, machine for cleaning cotton of its seeds, invented in the United States by Eli Whitney.

  • Samuel Bentham invents plywood.

    Helped to build houses or build any structures
  • French silk weaver J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard loom.

  • Richard Trevithick patented a "high pressure engine" and created the first steam-powered locomotive engine on rails

  • The American inventor Oliver Evans, acclaimed as the "father of refrigeration", invented the vapor-compression refrigeration machine in 1805.

  • Steamboat invented

    Would be used to transport goods and many other raw materials
  • Peter Durand invents the tin can.

  • The first chainsaw was designed by German orthopaedist Bernhard Heine in 1830. He called it the osteotome, from the Greek osteo (bone) and tome or tomi. This chainsaw, as well as many that followed, were used for medical purposes.

  • Cyrus McCormick took over his father's project of designing a mechanical reaper.

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