industrial revolution timeline p4 by Brody Battaglia

steel plow 1825

brodybattaglia — 2024-09-12 15:18:27 UTC

Jethro wood created the iron plow however John Deere improve the iron plow by making it a steel plow more durable a house would be able to pull the steel plow more quickly than an ox

interchangeable parts 1798

brodybattaglia — 2024-09-12 15:29:50 UTC

Eli Whitney created interchangeable parts in 1798 he did this because at the time guns were made by hand meaning all the guns were different this made them hard to fix. Eli Whitney changed this by manufacturing interchangeable parts these parts were all the same so when a part broke in the gun the owner would just have to buy another part instead of a new gun. This idea spread to factory's.

Slater's textile mill 1789

brodybattaglia — 2024-09-12 15:37:16 UTC

In 1789 Samuel Slater emigrates to the United States and starts helping a struggling textile mill in Pawtucket. This mill kept breaking down and after slater worked on it it became the first useful textile mill in the US this was copied by other textile Mills and Slater's ideas spread.

Child labor 1800s

brodybattaglia — 2024-09-12 15:40:10 UTC

As factories spread more workers were needed so factories hired kids as young as 7. They did this because they could pay them less and they could squeeze into tight spaces between machines and fix them.

urbanization 1800-1850

brodybattaglia — 2024-09-13 15:10:20 UTC

urbanization was a steady process in which people moved from farms into cities this lead to the factory industry growing as entire cities were built around factories. But as more and more people moved to cities they became overpopulation and dirty because there wasn't proper sanitation and a sickness spread rapidly this lead to cholera killing thousands.

daily life 1800s

brodybattaglia — 2024-09-13 15:19:09 UTC

The daily life of people in factory towns consisted of people working 12 hours a day for 6 days a week the only day off being Sundays. On these days people enjoyed theaters museums and circuses. On the weekdays in poorer everybody worked including women and children as young as 7. On group of women known as the Lowell girls lived together in boarding house in Lowell Massachusetts and worked in factories, send most of their money back home.

lowell's textile mill 1812

brodybattaglia — 2024-09-13 15:27:15 UTC

During the war of 1812 Francis Lowell found a way to improve British textile Mills this was because it took 2 factories to turn cotton into cloth. Lowell made a factory that turned raw cotton into cloth in one place this was a revolutionary idea and other factories used this to improve their cloth making.

cast iron stove 1834

brodybattaglia — 2024-09-13 15:33:34 UTC

Philip Stewart invented a wood burning cast iron stove that can fit in people's kitchens in 1834. About 90,000 were sold and this changed the life of people across the United States.

sewing machine 1846

brodybattaglia — 2024-09-13 15:38:56 UTC

In 1846 Elias Howe invented the sewing machine. After a few years Isaac singer improved on his design eventually clothing makers bought hundreds of the sewing machines and workers would be able to make dozens of shirts in the time it took to sew one by hand

Telegraph 1844

brodybattaglia — 2024-09-16 15:16:48 UTC

In 1844 Samuel Morse created the telegraph this was an instant success because it let news travel in a matter of minutes this helped many businesses thrive in eventually there was thousands of miles of wire stretched across the country.