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Spinning Jenny
The spinning jenny was invented by James Hargreaves in 1764. Hargreaves was a British carpenter and his invention was a development of already existing devices. The spinning jenny was eight spindles controlled by one wheel. The spinning jenny spun wool and cotton and helped to spin more than one ball of yarn. -
Cotton Gin
In April 1793, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. After graduating from college in 1792, Whitney went to live on a plantation in Georgia, which was where he became absorbed with the process of removing seeds from picked cotton. He created a working cotton gin in 10 days, and the invention made it easier to separate seeds from the fibers of cotton with little effort. With the cotton gin, slaves could make 50 pounds of cotton per day, while by hand they could only make 1 pound of cotton per day. -
Fulton's Steamboat
Robert Fulton's steamboat took its first successful voyage from the Hudson River in New York to Albany in April of 1807. The steamboat was a steam-driven vessel the was small or traveled on inland waters. The steamboat made it faster for people to travel and transportation in rivers was made easier. -
Phonograph
The phonograph is the reason we have the modern recording industry. Thomas Edison invented the phonogrpah in 1877. It was originally supposed to record phone calls, but ended up recording and replaying sounds--music is mainly what people used it for. The phonograph was cheap so many people could afford it and music became more popular.
