Matching Pairs 1st Industrial RevolutionOnline version Inventions of the 1st Industrial Revolution Matching Activity by Jonathan Leonard 1 Cotton Gin - Whitney 2 Textile Mills - Lowell 3 Mechanical Reaper - McCormick 4 Morse Code & Telegraph - Samuel Morse 5 Steamboats - Robert Fulton 6 Steel Plow - John Deere 7 Interchangeable Parts - Whitney 8 Canals 9 Water Wheel - Slater 10 Changes to Life 11 Railroads - Cooper 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 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. Manufacturing shifted from hand tools to complex machines, unskilled labor; work is done in factories not the home; Created a middle class. A horse-pulled machine that cut and harvested grain, could harvest more grain than five men using the earlier cradles Man-made river that connected the city to the country. Most Famous was the Erie Canal in New York 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 large wheel driven by flowing water, used to work machinery, first used in textile mills but required factories to be near rivers. 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. 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
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