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The spinning jenny was a machine used for spinning wool or cotton.(turning cotton into string or thread) -
A machine that uses heat and steam pressure to create energy and motion. -
It was a machine that carded raw wool fibers into yarn. -
It was another machine that produced cotton yarn into thread. -
A machine that weaves yarn into fabric -
On Rhode Island, Slater constructed a mill on the Blackstone River. The Slater mill was the first plant in the United States to effectively use water-powered machinery to create cotton yarn. -
A rail vehicle run by a steam engine is used to pull trains. -
A machine used to type on paper. When the user presses a key, a steel type is forced to strike a ribbon and transfer ink from that ribbon to the paper, producing letters on paper. -
His device used a mechanical transmitter made of a plate with long and short metal bars that stood in for the letters and digits in Morse code. The right dots and dashes were sent over the line as soon as the operator slid a pointer over the bars that was attached to a battery and a transmitting wire. -
In simple terms, a generator transforms motive force, or mechanical energy—in this example, the back-and-forth motion of the magnet—into electrical energy. -
A machine used by farmers to harvest crops mechanically. -
A machine made to sew using a grooved and curved eye-pointed needle carried by a vibrating arm. -
The telephone worked by a wire linking the battery to a needle, while another wire connected the battery to a receiver. Bell's voice vibrated the paper and needle as he talked into the open end of the drum-like device. After that, the vibrations were transformed into an electric current, which was sent to the receiver via the wire. -
He drills the first successful oil well. -
Dynamite is an explosive made by mixing nitroglycerine with a fine sand called kieselguhr would turn the liquid into paste which could be shaped into rods. -
vehicle-powered by a gas engine with 3 wheels.