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Industrial Revolution TImeline

  • Textile Mills

    Textile Mills
    Inventor: Samuel Slater
    Significance: Textile Mills Were Simply Put Where They Made Textile (Cloth) To Create The Materials For Clothing And Other Such Products.
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin
    Inventor: Eli Whitney
    Significance: Cotton Could Be Processed 50 Times Faster
  • Interchangeable Parts

    Interchangeable Parts
    Inventor: Eli Whitney
    Significance: Parts To Manufactured Products Were Made To Be Identical. Parts Of Products Could Be Replaced Instead Of The Whole Product. Factories Were Needed To Mass Produce Interchangeable Parts.
  • Steamboat

    Steamboat
    Inventor: Robert Fulton
    Significance: It Was Easier To Transport On Rivers Than On Land
  • Erie Canal

    Erie Canal
    Inventor: Engineering People (New York)
    Significance: Built In New York, Connecting Western Farmers To Cities.
  • National Road

    National Road
    Inventor: President Jefferson
    Significance: 1st Major Interstate Highway, Over 600 Miles Long Expanding Roads Connected Western Farms To Cities
  • Mechanical Reaper

    Mechanical Reaper
    Inventor: Cyrus McCormick \
    Significance: Farmers Could Harvest Larger Pieces Of Land
  • Steel Plow

    Steel Plow
    Inventor: John Deere
    Significance: Farmers Could Plow Larger Pieces Of Land
  • Sewing Machine

    Sewing Machine
    Inventor: Elias Howe
    Significance: Helped Turned Manufactured Cloth Into Clothing