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Textile Mills
inventor: samuel slater
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. -
Cotton Gin
Inventor: Eli whitney
a machine for separating cotton from its seeds. -
Interchangeable Parts
inventor: Eli Whitney
Interchangeable parts are parts 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
inventor: president Jefferson
first major interstate highway, over 600 miles long expanding roads connected western farms to cities -
Steamboat
inventor: Robert fulton
A steamboat is a boat in which the primary method of marine propulsion is steam power, typically driving propellers or paddle wheels -
Erie canal
inventor: erie canal
built in new york, connecting western farmers to cities -
Mechanical reaper
inventor: eli whitney
reaping was a painstaking process (done by hand with a scythe) that limited a farm's harvest. -
Steel Plow
inventor: john deere
Farmers could plow larger pieces of land -
Sewing Machine
inventor: elias howe
helped turn manufactured cloth into clothing
