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Steam Engine
Machine using steam power to perform mechanical work through the agency of heat. Steam engines are external combustion engines, where the working fluid is separated from the combustion products. -
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Industrial Revolution
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Eli Whitney & the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney creates a machine, that separates cotton seeds from cotton fiber. Allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. Helps states make more money, because it's not so time consuming anymore. -
Vaccines for Diseases
Louis Pasteur develops Vaccines for diseases. He was a French chemist. His first discovery in the study of vaccination came in 1879, and concerned a disease called chicken cholera. He inoculated chickens with the attenuated form, and demonstrated that the chickens were resistant to the fully virulent strain. -
The Brooklyn Bridge opens
The Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn with Manhattan, was opened to traffic with a celebration attended by President Chester A. Arthur, Gov. Grover Cleveland of New York, and Emily Roe-bling, the wife of the bridge's main engineer, Washington Roe-bling. It connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn, spanning the East River. -
Henry Ford & the Model T.
The Model T, also known as the “Tin Lizzie,” changed the way Americans live, work and travel. the first car to be affordable for a majority of Americans. Henry Ford made the first inexpensive automobile by producing his Model .
