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The industrialization in the United States started with the opening of a textile mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1793 by the recent English immigrant Samuel Slater.
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Eli whitney created the cotton gin. the machine pulls the cotton fibers from the seed.
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1812 parliament passes law that makes it illegal by penalty of death if industrial machines are destroyed
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Founded in 1813 by Francis Cabot Lodge. the corporation integrated mechanized production from raw cotton to finished cloth under the roof of a single water-powered factory.
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the Boston manufacturing company built the town Lowell after company founder Francis Cabot Lowell.
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august 14th 1835 Jacob Perkins created the 1st vapor compression cycle from the design of Oliver evens
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john deere created the steel plow for breaking up tough dirt, bury crop, and control weeds
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Samuel Morse invents telegraph, it allowed long distance communication.
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elisah otis invented the safety brake for elevators, this is crucial towards the future because skyscrapers were/are the future.
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The Bessemer process reduces molten pig iron in so-called Bessemer converters—egg-shaped, silica, clay, or dolomite-lined containers with capacities of 5 to 30 tons of molten iron.
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America's first transcontinental railroad was a 1,911-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa, with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.
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Alexander graham Bell patents the telephone
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It worked by passing electricity through a thin platinum filament in the glass vacuum bulb, which delayed the filament from melting. the lamp could only burn for a few hours.
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parts are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to workstation where the parts are added in sequence until the final assembly is produced.