Industrial Revolution Timeline by Emily Hallak

1793 Slater Mills

emilyhallak — 2025-09-05 13:39:11 UTC

In 1793 Samuel Slater created the Slater Mills which the first water powered mill. He had placed and invented the first one in Rhode island.

1847 Mechanical reapers

emilyhallak — 2025-09-05 13:51:34 UTC

In 1847, Cyrus McCormick invented Mechanical reapers. The reapers cut/collected things like wheat. This tool can do the work 5 people. That is a huge improvement for getting work done.

1792 New York Stock Exchange

emilyhallak — 2025-09-05 14:00:31 UTC

In 1792, 24 investors created the New York Stock Exchange. It was a stock market that raised private capital to cover the cost of new ventures. This success gave investors great amount of profit and had changes the wealth of the cities.

1800s Child labor

emilyhallak — 2025-09-05 14:03:27 UTC

During the 1800s farm children had work hard to make profit so the factory hired the children as young as 7 to work for them. This was because of size being able to squish in between machines. These children lived in boarding houses which are basically dorms.

1815 Lowell girls

emilyhallak — 2025-09-08 13:17:04 UTC

in 1815 the Lowell girls were hired to work in factories. most of these girls had sent their paychecks home to provide for their family. This changed the way factories worked because there was now more workers.

1790's Interchangeable parts

emilyhallak — 2025-09-08 13:20:58 UTC

In the 1790's Eli Whitney, an American inventor, started creating a lot of the same musket part so that they would be easy to repair, and you can make a lot at once. These interchangeable parts had allowed factory workers to make multiple machines and specifically muskets at once for the process to speed up.

Early 1800s packed cities

emilyhallak — 2025-09-08 13:29:36 UTC

in the early 1800s people from rural areas would move into the factory cities hoping to make profit. Soon these cities were over populated resulting in filthy streets filled with trash, and other problems caused by too many people living in one place at the same time.

1800s Long working hours

emilyhallak — 2025-09-08 13:33:46 UTC

Once farmers moved into the city's they began working at the factory for profit. Although the farmers work many hours farming, they work even more at the factories with 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. This made the workers tired and upset while working

1844 The telegraph

emilyhallak — 2025-09-08 13:39:07 UTC

in 1844 Samuel F. B. Morse invented and patented the telegraph. This was a invention that moved electrical signs through a wire, this helped inventors learn more about how electricity moves and works.

Around 1825 Lightweight steel plow

emilyhallak — 2025-09-08 13:44:54 UTC

Around 1825, John deer invented the light weight steel plow, this was an improvement on the iron plow made by Jethro Wood. The lightweight steel plow was a plow pulled by horse which was a improvement from oxen which was previously used to pull them