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Spinning Jenny
Inventor: James Hargreaves
Use: Machines used to weave clothes together to make clothing.
IImpact: Increased clothing production and need for cotton. -
Steam Engines
Inventor: James Watt
What it was used for: Engine powered by steam from boiling water, used in boats and trains for transportation.
Impact: Used in mills to power looms (mills could be built anywhere now). Increased western settlement due to improved transportation; as well as increased factory development in new areas. -
Factory Systems
Inventor: Samuel Slator
Use: A new way of organizing labor made necessary by the development of machines which were too large to house in a worker's cottage.
Impact: Led to English reform movement and encouraged development of social ideology. This increased growth of cities; job oppurtunities and clothing industry increased. -
Cotton Gin
Inventors: Eli Whitney
Use: A device used for separating cotton fiber from seed
Impact: The cotton gin made the cotton industry of the South explode. Processing cotton in greater availability and cheaper cloth. -
Interchangeable Parts
Inventor: Eli Whitney
Use: Parts which are designed to fit any device of the same type.
Impact:Production became faster; Repairs became easier and cheaper; decreased need for skilled labor, -
Steamboats
Inventor: Robert Fulton
What it was used for: Boats powered by steam engines rather than water wheels
Impact:Aided in Westward Expansion and made industries grow -
National Roads
Proposed by Albert Gallatin
Use: Road built from Maryland to Virginia.
-Easier route through the Appalachian Mountains
Impact: Allowed people to move about the country easier and aided with settlement of new areas. -
Erie Canals
Inventors: John C. Calhoun
Use: waterway that linked NY City with Buffalo
Impact: Opened up Ohio for transportaion of farm products and development ; Westward expansion made easier. -
Textile Mills/Lowell Mills
Inventor: Francis Cabot Lowell
Use: A manufacturing facility that is involved in processing textiles and turning them into products, such as clothing.
Impact: Boston Associates now controlled a fith of America's cotton production, in effect of these mills that helped speed-up production. It also increased job oppurtunities for young unmarried women; gave chance for education, but at the same time put some workers in danger. -
Telegraph
Inventor: Samuel F.B. Morse
Use: Translated electrical signals over wires from location to location that translated into a message.
Impact: Revolutionized communications making it possible to transmit messages across long distances with almost no delay.
-Facilitated Westward expansion and teh development of industry helped forge a sense of unity. -
Steel Plow
Inventor: John Deere
Use: It was used for farming to break up tough soil without soil getting stuck to it.
Impactt: The plow was crucial to the development of agriculture as a major buisness in the world, It increased efficiency and productivity and cultivation and jobs. It also increased farming production and expansion of farms into the U.S. midwest. -
Sewing Machine
Inventor: Elias Howe
Use: Mechanism used for faster sewing that outstiched the output of five hand sewers.
Impact: Increased clothing industry production; Increased a need for cotton. -
Transcontinental Railroad
Inventors: Central Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad
Use: Railroad that connected the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts
Impact: Improved transportation as godds and people would be connected as they moved west.
