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Robert Fulton was born
He was born on a farm in Little Britain, Pennsylvania -
Eli Whitney was born
He was born in Westborough, Massachusetts. -
Samuel Slater was born
He was born in Belper, Derbyshire, England. -
Samuel Slater (Father of the American Industrial Revolution)
He is known for bringing the industrial revolution to the U.S. from Great Britain. He would go to Great Britian, and study their inventions, and come back to america to invent them. On of the inventions he brought back to America was, the textile mill. It is based in the conversion of three types of fibre into yarn, then fabric, then textiles. These are then fabricated into clothes or other artifacts. It helped people not have to make cloths by hand. This aslo started new jobs for people. -
Samuel Morse was born
He was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. -
Eli Whitney invented the cotten gin
It wasn't validated until 1807. The cotton gin is a mechanical device that removes the seeds from cotton. They invented it so that they could clean ten times as much seeds from cotton in one day. The imact the invention put on the U.S. was good because, it took less slaves to do this job. It also opened up more jobs to people to use this machain. -
John Deere was born
He was born in Rutland, Vermont. -
Robert Fulton invented the steamboat
The steamboat is a boat powered by steam. He invented this because, it was a faster and easier way to sail and ship goods to other countrys. The impact this inventon put on America was good. Now they didn't need people under the boat rotating giant padles to move the boat. -
Robert Fulton died
He died in, New York City. Age 49. -
Eli Whitney died
He died in New Haven, Connecticut. Age 59 -
Samuel Slater died
He is resting in Mount Zion Cemetery, Webster, Massachusetts. Age 66. -
John deere invented the steel plow
The steel plow was used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting. He invented this so that farmers wouldn't have to do everything by hand. This invention set a good impact on America because, now farmers had something to straighten their crop rows and other platations for them, That was the steel plow. -
Samuel Morse invented the telegraph
The telegraph is the long-distance transmission of messages using some form of on, off coding system. The messages were sent in, Morse code format. They made this because, it was a faster way to send messages. The impact on this invention helped, so that people wouldn't always have to send letters. -
Samuel Morse died
He died in New York City, New York. Age 80. -
John Deere died
He died on May 17th in Moline, Illinois at age 82. -
The cotton gin today
The cotton gin is still used today. The only difference is that it is a big machine doing everything. -
The telegraph today
The telegraph today would be the iphone 4. This flat screened phone can text messages and email messages. The cool thing about it is that not only can you text and email messages, but you can send them in different languages. -
The steam boat today
The steam boat today would be a motor boat. These can carrie the same amount of people and go up to 50 mph. -
The steel plow today
The steel plow today would be the tractor. There are different kinds of tractors. some are meant for straightening rows for crops, and others are meant for cutting grass. -
Factories today
Factories today dont really need people to work them, Except if its to turn them on or off. Factories today do everything by itself.