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Inventor: Eli Whitley
cotton could be produced 50 times faster. -
Inventor: Elias Howe
helped turn manufactured cloth into clothing -
Inventor: After more than two years of digging, the 425-mile Erie Canal was opened on October 26, 1825, by Governor Clinton. As Clinton left Buffalo in the Seneca Chief, an ingenious method of communication was used to inform New York City of the historic occasion.
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Inventor: Samuel Slater
Textile mills turned cotton from the south into manufactured cloth -
Inventor: John Deere
Farmers could plow larger pieces of land way easier because of the invention. -
Inventor: Eli Whitney
parts manufactured products were made to be identical -
Inventor: John Fitch
Steamboats could travel faster and go upstream -
Inventor: In 1806 Congress authorized construction of the road and President Jefferson signed the act establishing the National Road. It would connect Cumberland, Maryland to the Ohio River. In 1811 the first contract was awarded and the first 10 miles of road built.
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Inventor: Cyrus McCormick claimed that his reaper was actually invented in 1831, giving him the true claim to the general design of the machine. Over the next few decades the Hussey and McCormick reapers would compete with each other in the marketplace, despite being quite similar.
