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James Watt creates steam engine boat
When he was 28 working as a mathmatical-instrument maker, a model of Thomas Enwcomen's steam pumping engine was brought to him. Watt set up the model and watched in operation noticed its faults and came up with a new idea to make it better. -
Eli Whitney makes the Cotton Gin
- Eli Whitney was the inventor of the cotton gin and a pioneer in the mass production of cotton. Prior to his invention, farming cotton required hundreds of man-hours to separate the cottonseed from the raw cotton fibers. Not only did Whitney evented the cotton gin, but also the musket.
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Stephenson world's first railroad line ran 27 miles
Stephenson's locomotive pulled six loaded coal cars and twenty one passanger cars with 450 passangers over nine miles in about one hour. He's considered to be the inventor of the first steam locomotive. In 1812, he became a collier engine builder. In 1814, he built his first locomotive for the Stockton and Darlington railway. He was later hired as a company engineer. -
Cyrus McCormick's reaper boosted American wheat production.
Cyrus was responsible for liberating farm workers for hours of back breaking labor by introducing farmers to his newly invented mechanical reaper. The next innovation happened in 1858, it was a self raking reaper. He moved to Chicago and built a reaper factory, which is now the international harvester company. -
John Deere creates the first steel plow
On his own, Deere created his own first class steel plow that greatly assisted the Great Plains Farmers. The plow was made pf wrought iron and had a steel share that could cut through sticky soil without clogging. By 1855 Deeres factory was selling ver 10,000 steel plows a year. -
Samuel F.B. Morse first sent electical signals over a telegraph.
The telegraph was invented in Bolivia. He used 35 wires with gold electrods and water at the receiving end. The message was read by the amount of gas caused by electrolysis. -
People moved to cities, which lead to overcrowding and disease.
When people moved over seas, cities became bigger. People moved over to America in search of religious freedom. Lots of immigrants poured into America, in search of religious freedom. -
I.M. Singer improved the sewing machine.
Singer was a known, intreverted back room inventor. He was also the most joyful, flambouyant, and unscuplous tycoons in American buisiness history. He designed the first practical and efficient sewing machine. -
Alexander Graham Bell patented first telephone
At the time Elisha Gray had also invented a telephone, but Bell patented it first.Grahams success with the telephone came with his attempts to improve the telegraph. -
Thomos Edison created the first phonograph.
The first great invention developed by Edison and Menlow Park was a tin foil phonograph. He was trying to improve the telegraph transmitter, and accidently created the phonograph. The word phonograph is a trade name for Edison's device.
