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Textile Mills
Textile manufacturing is a major industry It is based on the conversion of fiber into yarn yarn into fabric these are then dyed or printed fabricated into clothes. -
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Cotton Gin
A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation -
Interchangeable Parts
Interchangeable parts are parts components that are for practical purposes one such part can freely replace another without any custom fitting -
National Road
Construction of the Cumberland Road which later became part of the longer National Road was authorized on March 29, 1806, by third President Thomas Jefferson. -
Steamboat
Robert Fulton returned to new york in 1806 and began building a steamboat on the east river one year later on 17 august 1807 fultons steamboat the clermont made its first voyage on the hudson river traveling 40 miles from new york to albany in a record eight hours -
Erie Canal
The erie canal is a canal in new york that is part of the east and west cross-state route of the new york state canal system. originally it ran about 363 miles from albany on the hudson river to buffalo at lake erie. -
Mechanical Reaper
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
By early 1838 deere completed his first steel plow and sold it to a local farmer lewis crandall who quickly spread word of his success with deeres plow subsequently two neighbors soon placed orders with deere by 1841 deere was manufacturing 75-100 plows per year -
Sewing Machine
A sewing machine is a machine used to stitch fabric and other materials together with thread sewing machines were invented during the first industrial revolution to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies.
