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1095
The Crusades
In 1095 Pope Urban II of Rome launched a military movement against the Muslims (Ignitia.com Editors). This movement was to free the Holy Land from the Muslims (Ignitia.com Editors). A revival of interest in travel and trade swept over the invading armies (Ignitia.com Editors). Europe became filled with many excited people wanting to travel and trade (Ignitia.com Editors). -
1440
The Gutenberg's Press
In 1440, a German printer named John Gutenberg made a press that could print material by using movable type (Ignitia.com Editors). Gutenberg's press was considered a history-changing invention (Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut E). The first book to be printed of Gutenberg's press was the Bible (Ignitia.com Editors). Now a book that took months could now take just a few days (Ignitia.com Editors). -
The flying shuttle
A man named John Kay invented the flying shuttle (Ignitia.com Editors). This invention speeded up the weaving process (Ignitia.com Editors). The flying shuttle would pull a cord to move a shuttle back and forth over thread that formerly had to be pushed by hand (Ignitia.com Editors). Later in time, the flying shuttle was eiather improved or replaced (Ignitia.com Editors). -
The spinning jenny
The spinning jenny was invented by James Hargreaves (Ignitia.com Editors). This new machine could spin eight times as much as much thread as previous spinning wheels (Ignitia.com Editors). This development was a major change in the textile industry (Ignitia.com Editors). -
The cotton grin
Eli Whitney made the cotton grin (Ignitia.com Editors). Eli Whitney was a a colonial school teacher and gun maker from Connecticut (Ignitia.com Editors). Instead of one person separating on cotton pound per day, with the cotton grin he could make fifty pounds per day (Ignitia.com Editors). -
Clermont
Robert Fulton developed the steamboat (Ignitia.com Editors). He launched his ship the Clermont for a round trip of three hundred miles from New York City to Albany (Ignitia.com Editors). After it was successful many cites starting using steamboats for faster water transportation (Ignitia.com Editors). -
The Cumberland Road
Road travel was hard because sometimes it rained and the road got muddy and it became to dangerous to travel (Ignitia.com Editors). So, they made a road starting in Cumberland, Maryland and ending in Wheeling, West Virginia (Ignitia.com Editors). The road was thirty to eighty feet wide and was covered with crushed rock (Ignitia.com Editors). The road was traveled by farmers, cattlemen, sheepherders, and traders (Ignitia.com Editors). -
The steam locomotive
The steam locomotive was made by George Stephenson (Ignitia.coom Editors). Running on rails, the locomotive was powered by coal (Ignitia.com Editors). George Stephenson perfected it in 1830 (Ignitia.com Editors). This made road travel safer and easier (Ignitia.com Editors). -
The Erie Canal
In 1825, the Erie Canal was made for faster transportation (Ignitia.com Editors). This connected Lake Erie with New York's Hudson River (Ignitia.com Editors). This made a quicker route for trading or transporting goods (Ignitia.com Editors). -
The threshing machine
A man named Cyrus McCormick made the threshing machine (Ignitia.com Editors). This eliminated the slow process of cutting grain by hand and it save much more time of the farmers (Ignitia.com Editors). It also made much more than one person could make by hand (Ignitia.com Editors).