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New Inventions-Bogar
New technology & innovations in the U.S., early 1800s
Question | Answer |
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Samuel Morse | invented a new coding system for faster communication |
Morse Code | led to telegraph companies, quicker news, and efficient businesses |
John Deere | invented the steel-tipped plow that allowed farmers t cut through difficult prairie sod |
Cyrus McCormick | invented the mechanical reaper to speed up harvesting |
farming innovations | led to more settlers out west, harvesting greater numbers of crops quicker than ever |
cotton gin | separated the seeds to make production much quicker and greater |
Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin |
spinning jenny | drew and twisted cotton, revolutionizing the textile industry making clothes |
Lowell mills | water-powered textile mills in Massachusetts, often worked by children and women |
sewing machine | made the production and repair of clothing much easier |
steamboats | increased profit and trade by transporting people and goods via rivers and canals |
locomotives | made travel by land quick and connected major cities |
textile innovations | led to more mills that created clothes and women and children to work them |
Tom Thumb | early locomotive known for racing a horse but losing due to a malfunction |