https://padlet.com/marleesheehan/q8wjis9uagy32xop en-us 2022-09-14 14:17:10 UTC 2022-09-22 21:12:44 UTC hello@padlet.com marleesheehan https://padlet.com/marleesheehan/q8wjis9uagy32xop/wish/2296472260 The first Lowell Mill was made by Francis Cabot Lowell during the War of 1812.]]> 2022-09-14 14:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/marleesheehan/q8wjis9uagy32xop/wish/2296472260 marleesheehan https://padlet.com/marleesheehan/q8wjis9uagy32xop/wish/2296473371 In 1780, Edmund Cartwright made a loom powered by water.]]> 2022-09-14 14:31:22 UTC https://padlet.com/marleesheehan/q8wjis9uagy32xop/wish/2296473371 marleesheehan https://padlet.com/marleesheehan/q8wjis9uagy32xop/wish/2296489498 Mill Girls were Lowell's textile workers in the early to mid-1800s.  They were young, single Yankee women.  A lot of the Mill Girls came from farms or small rural villages, where economic opportunity was frequently limited to domestic service, family farm work, or poorly paid teaching jobs.]]> 2022-09-14 14:39:28 UTC https://padlet.com/marleesheehan/q8wjis9uagy32xop/wish/2296489498 marleesheehan https://padlet.com/marleesheehan/q8wjis9uagy32xop/wish/2298452047 In 1764 James Hargreaves made the spinning jenny which could spin several threads into cloth all at the same time.]]> 2022-09-15 14:55:24 UTC https://padlet.com/marleesheehan/q8wjis9uagy32xop/wish/2298452047 marleesheehan https://padlet.com/marleesheehan/q8wjis9uagy32xop/wish/2300103293 In 1825 Jethro Wood made the iron plow.  The iron plow had replaceable parts and John Deere improved it when he made a lightweight steel plow.]]> 2022-09-16 14:35:11 UTC https://padlet.com/marleesheehan/q8wjis9uagy32xop/wish/2300103293 marleesheehan https://padlet.com/marleesheehan/q8wjis9uagy32xop/wish/2309472232 Samuel Morse made the telegraph and morse code in 1844.  Morse code was a system of dots, dashes, and spaces so that messages could be sent.  Dots were short tones and the dashes were for long tones.]]> 2022-09-22 20:53:02 UTC https://padlet.com/marleesheehan/q8wjis9uagy32xop/wish/2309472232 marleesheehan https://padlet.com/marleesheehan/q8wjis9uagy32xop/wish/2309482428 Philo Stewart made the cast-iron stove in 1834. About 90,000 cast-iron stoves were sold.]]> 2022-09-22 21:02:41 UTC https://padlet.com/marleesheehan/q8wjis9uagy32xop/wish/2309482428 marleesheehan https://padlet.com/marleesheehan/q8wjis9uagy32xop/wish/2309491364 Cyrus McCormick made mechanical reapers in 1847. The reaper was a horse-drawn machine that cut and gathered wheat and other grains. It could do the work of 5 people using hand tools.]]> 2022-09-22 21:12:44 UTC https://padlet.com/marleesheehan/q8wjis9uagy32xop/wish/2309491364