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In 1764, James Hargreaves inventedd the Spinning Jenny. The Spinning Jenny could spin multiple threads at once, making it more efficient.

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The newer electric motor invented by Thomas Davenport in 1834 could be used in combination with the electric current invented by Joseph Henry to power machines from afar.

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In 1844, Samuel Morse invented the Telegraph. It allowed people from afar to communicate with each other using morse code.

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The Mechanical Reaper - Cyrus McCormick 1847

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The Mechanical Reaper - Cyrus McCormick 1847

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In 1847, Cyrus McCormick created the world's first Mechanical Reaper. The Mechanical Reaper was a horse-drawn machine that cut and gathered wheat and gathered wheat and other grains. It alone could do the work of 5 people using hand tools.

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Slater Mill was the first successful water wheel-powered cotton spinning mill in the U.S. It was built by Samuel Slater in 1793 when cotton spinning was still profitable.

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Francis Cabot Lowell - Combined spinning and weaving under one roof 1812

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Francis Cabot Lowell - Combined spinning and weaving under one roof 1812

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Francis Cabot created a mechanism to do the spinning and the weaving in one roof in 1812, as before you had to seperate cotton seed from cotton, then go to somewhere else to get it woven into silk.

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John Deere invented the first useful steel plow in 1837. It had a heavy moldboard to cut through tough soil so it could till fields faster than a normal plow

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15% of the nations population lived in cities.

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In 1850, cities sprang up around factories since people were attracted to job opportunities.

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They moved from farms to mill towns to work in factories. They got paid very low wages to send back home to families.

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Theaters, museums, circuses, dirt and gravel roads turned into mud holes