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The water frame allowed cotton fibers to be easily spun into cotton thread.
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Paddle wheeled steamboats made river travel alot easier. Invented by Robert Fulton
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Eli Whitney created the cotton gin to make it easier to pull out the seeds from the cotton. By 1801 annual production reached 100,000 bails.
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The National Road turned out to be the only great federally funded transportation project of its time. Private companies laid down hundreds of miles of toll roads.
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The first passenger loaded locamotive of its time. Forty people traveled at the then incredible speed of ten miles per hour along 133 miles of track between Baltimore and Ellicott City, Maryland.
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Mass produced could be sewn into mass-produced clothing with sewing machines invented by Elias Howe
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Samuel F.B. Morse created the telegraph in 1844. This was the first time you could send long distance messages across the country.
