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Ind & Transportation
Industry & Transportation p.96-100
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| turnpike | road one has to pay a fee, or toll, to access |
| National Road | America's first usable road; Maryland to the Ohio River Valley; 1818 |
| Robert Fulton | designed the first commercially successful steamboat |
| Erie Canal | completed in 1825; connected Lake Erie to the Hudson River |
| Industrial Revolution | began in Great Britain in the 1700's and spread to the U.S. around 1800; shift from manual labor to use of machines (mechanized) |
| Samuel Slater | came to U.S. from Britain with knowledge of technology; built the United States' first water-powered textile mill in 1973 |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | using secrets he gathered in England, he built the first mill to manufacture cloth in the U.S. in 1813 |
| "Lowell girls" | young ladies who worked in Francis Cabot Lowell's factories; held to strict rules for behavior |
| interchangeable parts | identical parts that can be used in place of one another; idea introduced to the U.S. by Eli Whitney |
| Eli Whitney | introduced interchangeable parts to U.S.; invented the cotton gin |
| Samuel F.B. Morse | invented the electric telegraph and Morse code |
| Morse code | electrical pulses read in a series of dots and dashes |
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