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industrial revoluion
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Pawtucket Textile mill
The industrialization in the United States started with the opening of a textile mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1793 by the recent English immigrant Samuel Slater. -
cotton gin
Eli whitney created the cotton gin. the machine pulls the cotton fibers from the seed. -
cant destroy industrial machines
1812 parliament passes law that makes it illegal by penalty of death if industrial machines are destroyed -
Bostons 1st textile mill
Founded in 1813 by Francis Cabot Lodge. the corporation integrated mechanized production from raw cotton to finished cloth under the roof of a single water-powered factory. -
1st large scale factory town in america
the Boston manufacturing company built the town Lowell after company founder Francis Cabot Lowell. -
1st vapor refrigerator
august 14th 1835 Jacob Perkins created the 1st vapor compression cycle from the design of Oliver evens -
steel plow invention
john deere created the steel plow for breaking up tough dirt, bury crop, and control weeds -
telegraph invention
Samuel Morse invents telegraph, it allowed long distance communication. -
elevator safety brake
elisah otis invented the safety brake for elevators, this is crucial towards the future because skyscrapers were/are the future. -
bessemer steel process
The Bessemer process reduces molten pig iron in so-called Bessemer converters—egg-shaped, silica, clay, or dolomite-lined containers with capacities of 5 to 30 tons of molten iron. -
U.S transcontinental railroad
America's first transcontinental railroad was a 1,911-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa, with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay. -
telephone patent
Alexander graham Bell patents the telephone -
Thomas Edison introduces his incandescent light bulb to the public.
It worked by passing electricity through a thin platinum filament in the glass vacuum bulb, which delayed the filament from melting. the lamp could only burn for a few hours. -
henry ford introduces the medel t and the assembly line
parts are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to workstation where the parts are added in sequence until the final assembly is produced.
