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Industrial Revolution

  • Steamboat

    Steamboat
    a boat that is propelled by a steam engine, especially a paddle-wheel craft of a type used widely on rivers in the 19th century.
  • Textile Mills

    Textile Mills
    manufacturing is a major industry. It is based on the conversion of fibre into yarn, yarn into fabric. These are then dyed or printed, fabricated into clothes. Different types of fibre are used to produce yarn.
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin
    a machine for separating cotton from its seeds.
  • Interchangeable Parts

    Interchangeable Parts
    Interchangeable parts are parts components that are, for practical purposes, identical. They are made to specifications that ensure that they are so nearly identical that they will fit into any assembly of the same type.
  • National Road

    National Road
    the first US-sponsored highway, built between 1811-1837 from Cumberland MD also, any highway or network of highways built by a country's government; also called Cumberland Road , Great National Pike
  • Erie Canal

    Erie Canal
    Erie Canal definition. An artificial waterway built across New York state in the early nineteenth century, linking Lake Erie and the Hudson River. The canal opened trade between New York and the mid western states and aided in the growth of New York City as a port.
  • Mechanical Reaper

    Mechanical Reaper
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    A mechanical reaper or reaping machine is a mechanical, semi-automated device that harvests crops. Mechanical reapers are an important part of mechanized agriculture and a main feature of agricultural productivity.
  • Steel Plow

    Steel Plow
    a boat that is propelled by a steam engine, especially a paddle-wheel craft of a type used widely on rivers in the 19th century
  • Sewing Machine

    Sewing Machine
    a machine with a mechanically driven needle for sewing or stitching cloth.