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Built the first factory in America. -
Invents the cotton gin. -
Developed a high-pressure steam engine that was adaptable to a variety of purposes. -
Coal power and machine production change the world. -
The “Tom Thumb” raced a horse-drawn cart to prove the superior power of steam engines. -
Patents the sewing machine. -
Created the lightbulb as well as electricity. -
Proved to be a benchmark for the American working class. -
J.P. Morgan merged the steel empire built by Andrew Carnegie’s Steel with the Federal Steel Company and National Steel Company. -
The Model T is made by Henry Ford. -
Invented the first automobile and founded Ford. -
Ford assembles the 1st moving assembly line. -
Charge was led by the country’s massive manufacturing industry. -
A group of engineers, known as the “Hush-Hush Boys” worked non-stop for 10 months straight to create the first jet engine. -
ISO is founded to develop international standards for business and technology. -
The digital computer was used in 1953 to automatically coordinate transforms to compute radar related vectors and graphic mathematical process of forming a shape with a digital machine tool. -
The introduction of integrated circuits allowed a higher level of processing. -
ABB Robotics and KUKA Robotics introduce industrial robots to the European market and they are quickly adopted in the US. -
Employment in the American manufacturing industry peaked in the U.S. -
Character, date, and code verification performed by cameras begin development. -
Original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform, IBM model number 5150. -
3D systems developed the stereo lithographic apparatus (SLA). -
Enacted to develop the foundations for a Smart Manufacturing infrastructure and approach. -
Introduced by Steve Jobs as a touch-screen phone. -
With the ability to combine technology with gestures, a whole new era of automation in manufacturing begins.