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Steam Engines
Inventor: Thomas Savery
What was it used for: engined powered by steam from boiling water
Invention's Impact: increased western settlement due to transportation; increased factory development in a new area -
Factory System
Inventor: Samuel Slator
What was it used for:
-a single machine process, capable of continuious production through multiple stages
-bulit near water and mostly in New England
Invention's Impact:
-transformed England into the workshop of the world
-helped many merchants
-allowed greater exploitation of labour
-reduced transaction costs and lowered the costs or coordination and monitoring quality -
Spinning Jenny
Inventor: James Hargreaves
What was it used for: first machine to improve upon the spinning wheel
Invention's Impact:
-increased clothing industry production; increased a need for cotton -
Cotton Gin
Inventor: Eli Whitney
What it was used for: design to remove cotton from its seed
The Iventions's impact:
-processing cotton made it easier resulting in greater availabilty and cheaper cloth
-increasing the number of slaves needed to pick the cotton -
Interchangable Parts
Inventor: Eli Whitney
What was it used for: replacement pieces of exact specification. Parts that are exactly alike.
Invention's Impact:
-start of the concept of mass production
-the device and Whitney's techniques were used to make many other parts
-production became faster
-decreased need for skillled labour -
National Roads
Inventor: Albert Gallatin
What it was used for: road built from Maryland to Virginia
Invention's Impact:
-allowed people to move about the country easier and aided with settlment of new areas -
Steamboats
Inventor: Robert Fulton
What was it used for:
-used to help people travel over body to water to places
-boats poered by steam engines rather than water wheels
Invention's Impact:
-transportation became easier and faster; cities developedvsuch as St. Louis; Westward exspansion -
Erie Canals
Inventor: Calhoun
What was it used for: waterways that linked NYC with Buffalo
Invention's Impact:
-opened up Ohio for transportation of farm products and development; westward exspansion made easier -
Texttile MIll/Lowell Mills
Inventor: Francis Cabot Lowell
What was it used for: girls came to work 12 hr shifts and lived in boarding homes
Invention's Impact:
-increased job opportunities for young, unmarried women; gave chance for education
-put some workers in danger -
Steel Plows
Inventor: John Deere
What was it used for:
- large plows made for cutting the tough parairie ground
-a light weight plownwith a sturdy steel blade designed for heavier soil
Invention's Impact:
-allowed labour to be easier
-increased farming production and exspansion of farms into the midwest U.S. -
Telegraph
Inventor: Samuel F. B. Morse
What was it used for: a commmunication sustem that transmitted electric signals over wires from location-location that translte into a message
Invention's Impact:
-it caused people to find new ways to try and send more than 1 message at a time
-this also lead to invent the telephone -
Sewing Machine
Inventor: Elias Howes
What was it used for: needle that was designed for a machine
Invention's Impact:
-caused people to go try to invent sewing machine that were similar to each other
-made sewing easier -
Transcontinental Railroad
Inventor: Central Pacific Railroad ad Union Pacific railroads
What was it used for: railroads that connected the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
Invention's Impact: impact transportation as goods and people would be connected as the moved west
