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Tells of the inventions and inventors, among other things, of the 1800s

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What did someone invent to help transportation of goods and other things to the farms and homes of the West?   The Erie Canal.   1825   Governor DeWitt Clinton  
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What did his opponents call it?   "Clinton's ditch"   1825   Governor DeWitt Clinton  
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This developed in... So ___ became a commercial center of the U.S.   Northeast needs food. Midwest needs manufactured goods. They formed a strong economical bond. ... New York   1825   Governor DeWitt Clinton  
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The________ made travel by water by burning fuels easy.   Steamboat   1807   Robert Fulton  
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____ ___ were the most graceful sailing crafts built. Resulted in the " golden era of ___"   Clipper Ships. Sail.   1840s and 1850s   Donald McKay  
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More efficient than water was the _____   Steam Locomotive!   about 1833   ????  
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A new way to plow   STEEL plow   1830s   John Deere  
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A new way to harvest   reaping machine or mechanical reaper   1831   Cyrus McCormick  
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Rapid cotton weaving powered by water was...   Power Loom   1800s   Francis Cabot Lowell  
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What is a patent?   legal rights to an invention      
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Two worked on something to help make clothes. What was it?   Sewing machine   1846 and afterwards in 1854   Elias Howe and Isaac Merrit Singer  
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Safety of coal miners   miners' safety lamp   1815   Sir Humphry Davy  
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Fast way to sent messages using electricity   telegraph   1837   Samuel Morse  
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First message sent by the Fast way to sent messages using electricity?   What God hath Wrought! (Num. 23:23)   1844   Samuel Morse  
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Fastest way to sent messages before the Fast way to sent messages using electricity?   Pony Express   April 1860 to October 1861    
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"Pathfinder of the Seas"   Matthew Maury   1850s    
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Send messages underwater.   transatlantic cable   1858   Cyrus Field  
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Send messages underwater. first one from ____ to ____   Newfoundland to Ireland   1858   Cyrus Field  
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Send messages underwater. First message sent.   "Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, and good-will to men   1858   Cyrus Field  
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an entrepreneur is a what?   a person who risks personal loss to develop and market new products or ideas.      
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First pain killer. Not credited   ether; "deep sleep"   1842   Crawford Long  
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First pain killer. Credited.   ether   1840s   William Morton  
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ease pain of dental work word to descried absence of pain   used: nitrous oxide... no pain: anesthesia   1844   Horace Wells  
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First Woman Physician   Elizabeth Blackwell   1849    
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light for streets   gas street light   1830   ????  
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Lamp powered by cheep oil   kerosene   1854   ????  
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applied science is   the practical use of scientific knowledge.      
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Credits: America Land I Love   Credits: America Land I Love   Credits: America Land I Love   Credits: America Land I Love  
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Who wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"? What was his real name?   Samuel Clemens wrote this under the name of Mark Twain.   1835-1910   Samuel Clemens  
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The steamboat did the same thing to ___ as to New York because...   New Orleans. South sends cotton to England. England sends manufactured goods.   1850   Robert Fulton  
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