Inventions

  • Steam Engines

    Steam Engines

    James Watt created these so they could be used to move machinery by using the power of steam.Thee provided a convinient source of energy that majored forms of transportation during the revolutuion. It alsoallowed for quicker transportation of raw materials that could be used to produced finished goods.
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney created the gotton gin which was used to easily get seeds out of cotton.This helped launch the massive cotton industry in the south.
  • Factory Systems

    Factory Systems

    Samuel Slator invented factory systems. This was used to manufacture everything for a product in the same place.This brought machine and workers under one roof and increased growth of cities and job oppurtunities. This also increased the industry of clothing.
  • Interchangeable Parts

    Interchangeable Parts

    Eli Whitney invented interchangeable parts these helpes workers to cut metal objects in an identical fashion.Because of this production became fasrer;repairs easier and aided with settlement of new areas.
  • National Roads

    National Roads

    Albert Gattalin invented these in. These allowed people to move around the country easier and aided settlement of new areas.
  • Steamboats

    Steamboats

    Robert fulton invented steamboats. They were boats powered by steam engines rather than wheels.Because of these transportation became easier and faster;cities developed and it helped westward expansion.
  • Erie Canals

    Erie Canals

    Calhoun invented the Erie Canals. They were used as a waterway that connected NY with Buffalo. THis opened up Ohio for transportation of ffarm products and made the westward expansion easier.
  • textile Mills/Lowell Mills

    textile Mills/Lowell Mills

    Francis Cabot Lowell created these;girls came to work 12 hour shifts and live in boarding homes. This increased unmarried women;gave the chance for education: put some workers in danger.
  • Steel Plow

    Steel Plow

    John Deere created these allowing farmers to turn heavy, gummy prarie sod easily. 25 years later women and youing children used them allowing men to be away at war.
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph

    Samuel F.B. Morse invented this it was the firt line that you could communicate almost instantly with a person far away.This improved communications by making it faster; it connected regions of the country together.
  • Spinning Jenny

    Spinning Jenny

    Elias howe and James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny or sewong machine.They were used to weave clothes and sew them.This invention increased clothing production and need for production.
  • Transcontinental Railroad

    Transcontinental Railroad

    The central Pacific railroad and Union pacific railroad created this.These improved transportation of goods and people would be connected as they moved west.