INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

STEAMBOAT

• Robert Fulton invented the first steamboat in 1807
• It effected the economy by transporting goods or products

COTTON GIN

• Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin
• In 1793
• It helped the slaves jobs much easier than before, because before
• The cotton gin was invented the slaves were picking the seeds with their hands, but
• now the cotton gin picks the seeds

INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS

• Eli Whitney invented it in 1798
• Eli Whitney used them to assemble muskets in the first years of the 19th century, allowed relatively unskilled
• Workers to produce large numbers of weapons
• quickly and at lower cost, and made repair and replacement of parts infinitely easier

BESSEMER STEEL PROCESS

• It was invented by Henry Bessemer in 1855
• A lot more steel was made and at a faster rate

MECHANICAL REAPER

• It was invented by Cyrus McCormick in 1831
• It helped farmers by harvesting grain faster

TELEGRAPH

• It was invented by Samuel Morse in 1847
• It helped a lot with transportation and it helped deliver messages

SEWING MACHINE

• It was invented by Thomas Saint in 1790
• I helped by sewing clothes together and it was made faster than by hand
• Since it only took one person to use the sewing machine a lot of people had to lose their jobs

STEAM LOCOMOTIVE

• It was invented by George Stephenson in1814
• It helped by getting things across states faster than by wagon or horseback

STEEL TIPPED PLOW

• It was invented by John Deere in 1837
• It helped by getting more land plowed