Inventions Timeline

  • Steam Engine

    Steam Engine
    the steam engine was built to get people across the country faster.
  • Factory System

    Factory System
    Factory systems were made to make products faster.
  • Lowell Mills

    Lowell Mills
    This was where machines and people worked under the same roof.
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph
    The telegraph was made for quicker comunication than by horseback.
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin
    Cotton gins were made to seperate the seeds from the cotton wich made cloth cost less.
  • Interchangeable Parts

    Interchangeable Parts
    Interchangeable parts is where the parts are identical and it makes reparing things and replacing parts alot easier.
  • Steam Boats

    Steam Boats
    Steam boats made the boats move on their own and it let people get places fast without alot of work.
  • Erie Canal

    Erie Canal
    The Erie canals were made so that boats could travel through cities. This helped the economy go down.
  • National Roads

    National Roads
    This let people travel from place to place faster than before.
  • Steel Plow

    Steel Plow
    Steel plows were invented so that farming would be alot faster. the steel plow broke up the ground so that the farmers could plant there.
  • Spinning Jenny/Sewing Machine

    Spinning Jenny/Sewing Machine
    It automatically sews cloth together and does it faster than by hand.
  • Transcontinental Railroad

    Transcontinental Railroad
    This railroad was made so that people could get from one side of the country to the other. It conected the Atlantic to the Pacific.