https://padlet.com/19brakemeierd/68y1a450tugk en-us 2016-12-12 17:00:08 UTC 2016-12-14 20:54:10 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Diskette.png 19brakemeierd https://padlet.com/19brakemeierd/68y1a450tugk/wish/143177684 Hello everybody, i'm Dylan Brakemeier, and this is Crash Course U.S. History. Today we will be talking about The Technological
innovation during the American Industrial Revolution.]]> 2016-12-12 17:04:09 UTC https://padlet.com/19brakemeierd/68y1a450tugk/wish/143177684 19brakemeierd https://padlet.com/19brakemeierd/68y1a450tugk/wish/143181439 Before the arrival of the Industrial Revolution, most people lived in small, rural communities where their daily existences revolved around farming. Life for the average person was difficult because incomes were small and disease were common. People produced the bulk of their own food, clothing, furniture and tools. Most manufacturing was done in homes or small, rural shops, using hand tools or simple machines.]]> 2016-12-12 17:15:31 UTC https://padlet.com/19brakemeierd/68y1a450tugk/wish/143181439 19brakemeierd https://padlet.com/19brakemeierd/68y1a450tugk/wish/143192784 In 1794, U.S. inventor Eli Whitney (1765-1825) patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. By the mid-19th century, cotton had become America’s leading export. Despite its success, the gin made little money for Whitney due to patent-infringement issues.Through this project, he promoted the idea of interchangeable parts (identical parts that made for faster assembly and easier repair of various devices). For his work, he is credited as a pioneer of American manufacturing.]]> 2016-12-12 17:50:43 UTC https://padlet.com/19brakemeierd/68y1a450tugk/wish/143192784 19brakemeierd https://padlet.com/19brakemeierd/68y1a450tugk/wish/143194692 The factory system is a method of manufacturing using machinery and division of labor. Because of the high capital cost of machinery and factory buildings, factories are typically owned by capitalists who employ the operative labor. Use of machinery with the division of labor reduced the required skill level of workers and also increased the output per worker.]]> 2016-12-12 17:56:28 UTC https://padlet.com/19brakemeierd/68y1a450tugk/wish/143194692 19brakemeierd https://padlet.com/19brakemeierd/68y1a450tugk/wish/143197134 Mass production is the manufacture of large quantities of standardized products, frequently utilizing assembly line technology. Mass production refers to the process of creating large numbers of similar products efficiently.]]> 2016-12-12 18:04:07 UTC https://padlet.com/19brakemeierd/68y1a450tugk/wish/143197134 19brakemeierd https://padlet.com/19brakemeierd/68y1a450tugk/wish/143199352 A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The use of boiling water to produce mechanical motion goes back over 2000 years, but early devices were not highly practical. A Spanish inventor obtained the first patent for a steam engine in 1606. In 1698 Thomas Savery patented a steam pump that used steam in direct contact with the water being pumped. Savery's steam pump used condensing steam to create a vacuum and draw water into a chamber, and then applied pressurized steam to further pump the water. Thomas Newcomen's atmospheric engine was the first commercial true steam engine using a piston, and was used in 1712 for pumping in a mine.]]> 2016-12-12 18:09:47 UTC https://padlet.com/19brakemeierd/68y1a450tugk/wish/143199352 19brakemeierd https://padlet.com/19brakemeierd/68y1a450tugk/wish/143206275 Transportation in the United States is facilitated by road, rail, and waterways (by horses, trains, and boats). The vast majority of passenger travel occurs by walking and horses for shorter distances, and railroad for some people, for longer distances. Most cargo and people travel by railroad or boat.]]> 2016-12-12 18:32:38 UTC https://padlet.com/19brakemeierd/68y1a450tugk/wish/143206275 19brakemeierd https://padlet.com/19brakemeierd/68y1a450tugk/wish/143215440 An electrical telegraph was independently developed and patented in the United States in 1837 by Samuel Morse. His assistant, Alfred Vail, developed the Morse code signalling alphabet with Morse.]]> 2016-12-12 19:03:31 UTC https://padlet.com/19brakemeierd/68y1a450tugk/wish/143215440 19brakemeierd https://padlet.com/19brakemeierd/68y1a450tugk/wish/143217428 The North had a free labor system in place meaning that they did not want slaves. But the South had the opposite they had a slave system and they liked slavery and wanted it to continue.]]> 2016-12-12 19:09:45 UTC https://padlet.com/19brakemeierd/68y1a450tugk/wish/143217428 19brakemeierd https://padlet.com/19brakemeierd/68y1a450tugk/wish/143424224 An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit rather than by the state.]]> 2016-12-13 17:18:42 UTC https://padlet.com/19brakemeierd/68y1a450tugk/wish/143424224