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Textile Mills
Samuel Slater was born in Belper Derbyshire England on June 9, 1768. He become involved in the textile industry at the age of 14 when he was apprenticed to Jedediah Strutt a partner of Richard Arkwright and the owner of one of the first cotton mills in Belper -
Interchangeable Parts
In 1798, Whitney began manufacturing musket rifles for the new American government -
Steamboat
was built by American inventor Robert Fulton in 1807. -
National Road
Route 40, was built between 1811 and 1834 to reach the western settlements -
Steel Plow
john Deere invented the steel plow in 1837 when the Middle-West was being settled -
Sewing Machine
The invention of the sewing machine by Connecticut native Elias Howe in 1846 -
cotton gin
Eli Whitney's original cotton gin patent, dated March 14, 1794.
