Social studies

The Industrial Revolution

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  • Samual Slater arrives in the U.S. with plans to a textile mill

  • Eli Whitney applies for a patent for the cotton gin

  • Eli Whitney did a demonstration for the U.S. congress to convince them about "interchangeable parts"

  • Robert Fulton's steamboat makes its first commercial voyage

  • Construction begins on the on the National Road

  • Work begins on the Erie Canal

  • The first mill is opened in the factory town of Lowell

  • Erie Canal construction is finished

  • Samuel Morse recieves a patent for his telegraph

  • Elias Howe recieves a patent for his design of a sewing machine

  • The first labor union, called the National Labor Union, was formed in the U.S.

  • The first permanent trans-Atlantic cable was completed

  • The "Golden Spike Ceremony" completes the building of the Transcontinental Railroad

  • Andrew Carnegie's first steel mill opened in the U.S.

  • The first telephone patent in the U.S. was issued to Alexander Graham Bell

  • The first electric light bulb patent in the U.S. was issued to Thomas Edison

  • The Great Southwest Railroad Strike occured

  • The first gasoline-powered automobile in the U.S. was made

  • The first sucessful airplane flight in the U.S. was copleted by the Wright Brothers

  • Henry Ford introduced the assembly line in his auto planet