Industrial Revolution Timeline Period 4 by Alice Morrissey

Steel Plow 1825

alicemorrissey — 2024-09-12 15:18:13 UTC

Jethro Woods created the iron plow. However John Deere improved the iron plow by making it a steel plow more durable. A horse would be able to pull the steel more quickly than an ox

Power Loom 1780

alicemorrissey — 2024-09-12 15:22:42 UTC

In the 1780's Edmund Cartwright built a loom powered by water. It allowed a worker to produce a great deal more cloth in a day than was possible before. Because of this workers got to do more than one piece of cloth at a time.

First American Mill 1793

alicemorrissey — 2024-09-12 15:27:20 UTC

In 1793 Samuel Slater in Pawtucket built what became the first successful textile mill in the United States that was powered by water.

Urbanization 1800-1850

alicemorrissey — 2024-09-12 15:34:45 UTC

In the 1800 only 6% of the nations population lived in Urban areas because of there many problems such as spread of diseases, pollution in water, No sewer garbage in streets and when it rained the streets turned into muck holes. Later around 1850 more factories more being built and the number had risen to 15%.

Child Labor 1800

alicemorrissey — 2024-09-13 15:17:36 UTC

Boys and girls as young as 7 were working in factories. Small children were especially used in textile Mills because they could squeeze around the large machines to change spindles.

(Daily Life in Factories)Spinning Jenny 1764

alicemorrissey — 2024-09-13 15:27:30 UTC

In 1764 James Hargreaves developed the Spinning Jenny, a machine that could spin several threads at once. This helped people because it would quicken the work time by spinning multiple threads instead of one. Especially helping women who have many obligations to fulfill at home.

Cast Iron Stove 1834

alicemorrissey — 2024-09-13 15:32:33 UTC

In 1834, Philo Stewart developed a cast iron stove small enough for use in an average kitchen. His factory-built-wood burning stove was a great success. About 90,000 were sold. The cast Iron Stove was only one sign of way northern factories were changing lives of ordinary people.

Mechanical Reapers 1847

alicemorrissey — 2024-09-13 15:36:57 UTC

In 1847 Cyrus McCormick opened a factory in Chicago that produced mechanical reapers. The reapers was a horse drawn machine that cut and gathered wheat and other grains. McCormick's reapers could do the work of five people using hand tools.

Lowell Girls 1812

alicemorrissey — 2024-09-16 15:15:30 UTC

To work in their new Mills the company hired young women from nearby farms. The Lowell Girls as they came to be called, usually worked for a few years in the mills before returning home to marry. These young women, and women like them in other mill towns, made an important economic contribution to American society by providing labor for the Industrial Revolution.

The Telegraph 1844

alicemorrissey — 2024-09-16 15:27:50 UTC

Samuel F.B. Morse received a patent for a "talking wire" or Telegraph, in 1844. The Telegraph was a device that sent electrical signals along a wire. Congress gave Morse funds to run wire from Washington D.C., to Baltimore. As a crowd of onlookers watched Morse tapped out a short message, "What hath God wrought!" A few seconds later, the operator in Baltimore tapped back a message. The Telegraph worked. News could now travel long distances in a few minutes.