Industrial Revolution Timeline by Enaya Awan

1793 Slater Mills

enayaawan — 2025-09-05 17:22:55 UTC

Slater mills was the first American mill that was a huge success

1800s Daily Life

enayaawan — 2025-09-05 17:29:12 UTC

In the 1800s families started transferring from farm life to factory towns in small wooden houses, for job opportunities, with new inventions.

1798 Interchangeable parts

enayaawan — 2025-09-05 17:33:16 UTC

In 1798, muskets with interchangeable parts were being produced by Whitney. Interchangeable parts spread to other inventions like clocks, and locks.

1850 Rural life to cities

enayaawan — 2025-09-05 17:37:07 UTC

Another reason families transferred to cities was for theaters, shops, the circus, and museums. But there was lots of pollution, the waters became contaminated, causing cholera to spread

1834 Cast Iron Stove

enayaawan — 2025-09-05 17:40:23 UTC

Philo Stewart invented the cast iron stove used for burning wood, and small enough to fit in an average kitchen is 1834

1825 Iron plow

enayaawan — 2025-09-08 17:05:02 UTC

Jethro Wood made the steel plow to make farming easier by using oxen and horses too pull the steel plow.

1842 Lowell Girls

enayaawan — 2025-09-08 17:17:50 UTC

Young women known as the Lowell Girls were hired to help work for the Industrial Revolution. They stayed in boarding houses and had rules to protect the women there.

1847 Reaper

enayaawan — 2025-09-08 17:21:55 UTC

Cyrus McCormick invented the reaper helping with collecting wheat and other grains. It was horse pulled and did the work of five people!

1844 Telegraph

enayaawan — 2025-09-08 17:29:05 UTC

Made the first talking wire using Morse code. It became a big success helping businesses and family.

1793 Water Wheel

enayaawan — 2025-09-08 17:32:52 UTC

Slater made the first working textile mill in the United States and spread to many manufacturers.