Industrial Revolution period 3 by Ethan Rauccio

The Lightweight Steel Plow 1837

ethanrauccio — 2024-09-12 14:47:13 UTC

It was created by John Deere, It was an improved version of Jethro wood iron plow. Instead of being pulled by oxen like the iron plow the light weight steel plow was pulled by a horse. This made it faster to plow through fields.

The Cast Iron Stove 1834

ethanrauccio — 2024-09-13 14:23:28 UTC

It was created by Philo Stewart, it was developed to be small enough for use in an average kitchen. The cast iron stove was bought by 90,000 people. This invention was one of many examples of the way northern factories changed the lives of ordinary people the Cast Iron Stove made it easier to cook cook thing in the kitchen.

Urbanization 1850-1920

ethanrauccio — 2024-09-13 14:33:22 UTC

By 1850, the percent of people that lived in cities went from only six percent to fifteen percent. Not until 1920 people really started to live in cities. People moving to cities was affecting the population. More and more people started to flood in making cities overpopulated. People that lived on farms came to cities to work in factories. Due to there being a bunch of factories a lot of people moved to work.

Lowell girls in the 1830s

ethanrauccio — 2024-09-13 14:51:49 UTC

Francis Cabot Lowell created a new textile mill Waltham, Massachusetts. When he died his partners created a town named after him. Soon after young women came from farms and worked in factories that were built in Lowell. Any wages the Lowell girls made was sent to their families back at the farms. Although each Lowell girl only worked for a few years they helped the economy in a positive way.

Daily life in the 1830s

ethanrauccio — 2024-09-16 14:38:48 UTC

During the War of 1812, Francis Cabot Lowell built a new textile mill. This textile mill was created in Waltham Massachusetts, it had all the machines needed to turn raw cotton into finished cloth. After Lowell died his partners let Lowell girls run the mill. Investors would often invest in factories and hire workers to operate machines. The work these people did was ruff and very dangerous. Factories workers had 12 hour shifts and had to work for 6 days of the week. The only day they had off was Sunday to go to church or even shopping. The capitalists would also hire children to work in the factories they invested in. They hired children due to the fact that normal men can fit into tiny gaps. If a machine doesn't work and an adult can't reach to fix it then a child needs to. Children and women didn't get paid as much as men.

Industry in the 1830s

ethanrauccio — 2024-09-16 20:32:01 UTC

Investors paid workers to operate machines and work in factories. To make products factories needed laborer's, raw materials, and raw power. Textile Mills often were placed near a river in order to have water as energy. This energy mostly was used to power large machines that were in the Mills. Francis Cabot Lowell created a textile mill in massachusetts, Mosses Brown created a textile mill in Rhode Island, and Samuel Slater also created a textile mill in Rhode Island. These Mills were Manley focused on spinning and weaving along with making cloth. These factories and mills made it easier to produce goods even if the quality wasn't as good, more products were still being made.

Spinning Jenny 1764

ethanrauccio — 2024-09-16 20:40:31 UTC

The spinning Jenny was created by James Hargreaves in 1764-1765. The spinning Jenny was created in order to spin multiply threads at once. Before this invention people had to spin thread one at a time. Then this invention came along and made the process of spinning thread a whole lot easier. The SPinning Jenny increased the production speed and the amount of thread created which was something that helped early thread weavers.

Mechanical reaper 1831

ethanrauccio — 2024-09-16 21:39:10 UTC

The mechanical reaper was invented/created by Cyrus McCormick as a farm machine. The Mechanical Reaper was a horse-drawn machine that cut and gathered wheat and other grains. cyrus McCormick's Mechanical Reaper could do the work of five men that used hand tools. This machine made it easier to gather grains and took less people to do it. Ultimately this machine made it easier and faster to harvest grain, it took less people, and was horse-drawn so you didn't have to walk.

Erie Canal 1817

ethanrauccio — 2024-09-17 00:51:02 UTC

The Erie Canal connected Buffalo, New York to Albany, New York. This Canal being created made it quicker to travel from each end to the other. Before the cnal was built it took 14 days to travel from Buffalo to Albany. After the canal was built it only took 6 days to travel from Albany to Buffalo. The canal being built made it faster to travel from Buffalo to Albany. Also the amount of money to ship goods from Albany to Buffalo before the canal was $100. Then after the canal was built the cost to ship good from Albany to Buffalo dropped all the way down to $10. The canal being built lowered the cost to ship goods from Albany to Buffalo.

Interchangeable parts 1798

ethanrauccio — 2024-09-17 01:28:12 UTC

Interchangeable parts was invented by Eli Whitney. Interchangeable parts was invented because "Whitney wanted to speed up the making of guns by having machines manufacture each part. All machine-made parts would be alike-for example, one trigger would be identical to another. Identical parts were built to fit all together, and gunsmiths wouldn't have to build each gun from scratch." Also "In 1798, Whitney began producing muskets in the first factory to rely on interchangeable parts. The idea of interchangeable parts spread rapidly. Inventors designed machines to produce interchangeable parts for clocks, locks, and many other goods. With such machines, small workshops grew into factories." Interchangeable also helped in the farming industry because they helped Jethro Wood create the iron plow. This showed that Interchangeable Parts made assembling clocks, guns, etc easier .