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Socil studys notes
notes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Samuel F.B. Morse | in 1832 perfected the telegraph. |
| Telegraph | a device that could send information over wires across great distances. |
| Alfred Lewis | delveloped morse code. |
| Morse code | different combination of dots and dashs that repersents a different letter of the alphabet. |
| Note | in 1850s miles of telegraph lines where added each year. |
| Note | At start of industrail revolution most of facteries where powered by water but in time factery owners started useing steam power. |
| Note | people who used steam powerd facteries started to move the facteris closer to citys reduceing shipping prices and lowering workers wages and esay acses for workers. |
| Note | people from rural areas and forigen nations flocked to cites for factery jobs. |
| John Deere | in 1837 blacksmith john deere created a steel blade plow for hard soil for farmers. |
| Cyrus McCormick | in 1831 Cyrus McCormick developed a new harvesting machine called the reaper that could cut quickly and effincently cut down wheat. |
| Elias Howe | invented the sewing machine. |
| Isaac Singer | imporved the sewing machine. |
| Note | companies started using credits for items and mass produicing house hold and work tools. |
| Note | prices of items which costed more before the revolotuin were cheaper after words. Examples of items-Clocks,safty pins. |