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Cotton Gin
Inventor: Eli Whitley
cotton could be produced 50 times faster. -
Sewing machine
Inventor: Elias Howe
helped turn manufactured cloth into clothing -
Erie Canal
Inventor: After more than two years of digging, the 425-mile Erie Canal was opened on October 26, 1825, by Governor Clinton. As Clinton left Buffalo in the Seneca Chief, an ingenious method of communication was used to inform New York City of the historic occasion. -
Textile mill
Inventor: Samuel Slater
Textile mills turned cotton from the south into manufactured cloth -
Steel plow
Inventor: John Deere
Farmers could plow larger pieces of land way easier because of the invention. -
Interchangeable parts
Inventor: Eli Whitney
parts manufactured products were made to be identical -
Steamboat
Inventor: John Fitch
Steamboats could travel faster and go upstream -
National road
Inventor: In 1806 Congress authorized construction of the road and President Jefferson signed the act establishing the National Road. It would connect Cumberland, Maryland to the Ohio River. In 1811 the first contract was awarded and the first 10 miles of road built. -
Mechanical reaper
Inventor: Cyrus McCormick claimed that his reaper was actually invented in 1831, giving him the true claim to the general design of the machine. Over the next few decades the Hussey and McCormick reapers would compete with each other in the marketplace, despite being quite similar.
