Matching Pairs 1st Industrial RevolutionOnline version Inventions of the 1st Industrial Revolution Matching Activity by Jonathan Leonard 1 Steel Plow - John Deere 2 Changes to Life 3 Steamboats - Robert Fulton 4 Railroads - Cooper 5 Mechanical Reaper - McCormick 6 Textile Mills - Lowell 7 Cotton Gin - Whitney 8 Canals 9 Interchangeable Parts - Whitney 10 Morse Code & Telegraph - Samuel Morse 11 Water Wheel - Slater Type of boat that used water heated into steam to turn a paddle to move the boat up and down stream, transporting by the river was faster and cheaper. A new type of plow to break up tough soil without soil getting stuck to it A machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers that made slavery more profitable Manufacturing shifted from hand tools to complex machines, unskilled labor; work is done in factories not the home; Created a middle class. Man-made river that connected the city to the country. Most Famous was the Erie Canal in New York The first mills for the mass production of cotton cloth, not just thread. Built residences for workers (young, single women) & had strict rules for behavior A large wheel driven by flowing water, used to work machinery, first used in textile mills but required factories to be near rivers. Developed first in England, trains used steam engines to carry loads of freight and passengers, helped to settle the west but were limited by amount of track. A horse-pulled machine that cut and harvested grain, could harvest more grain than five men using the earlier cradles Message in the form of short, rapid electric impulses (dots and dashes) is sent to a receiving station, very quickly Parts (components) that are identical, made to specifications that ensure that they are so nearly identical that they will fit into any assembly of the same type.
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