Old factory boston

The Industrial Revolution

By mrsoskil

  • Samuel Slater and Moses Brown Built the First American Textile Mill

    Samuel Slater and Moses Brown Built the First American Textile Mill

  • Eli Whitney Receives a Patent for the Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney Receives a Patent for the Cotton Gin

  • Eli Whitney Creates Firearms with Interchangeable Parts

    Eli Whitney Creates Firearms with Interchangeable Parts

  • Congress Votes to Built a National Road from the Atlantic Coast to Ohio

    Congress Votes to Built a National Road from the Atlantic Coast to Ohio

  • Robert Fulton invents the First Steamboat (Clermont)

    Robert Fulton invents the First Steamboat (Clermont)

  • Francis Lowell's Textile Mill Puts Weaving, Spinning, and Dying Cloth all in the Same Factory

  • Work Begins on the National Road

    Work Begins on the National Road

  • Work Starts on the Erie Canal

    Work Starts on the Erie Canal

  • National Road Opens to Traffic from Maryland to the Ohio River

    National Road Opens to Traffic from Maryland to the Ohio River

  • Erie Canal is Finished

    Erie Canal is Finished

  • Peter Cooper uses "Tom Thumb", the First Steam Locomotive to Pull Passengers

    Peter Cooper uses "Tom Thumb", the First Steam Locomotive to Pull Passengers

  • Harriet Hansen & Other Women Workers Strike against the Lowell Mills

    Harriet Hansen & Other Women Workers Strike against the Lowell Mills