Transportation and Inventions? EQ: Which inventions made the Industrial Revolution possible for the factories and for the farms?

Transportation Robert Fulton – invented a steamboat that could move against the current or wind The Clermont could carry passengers much easier on water – moved people and goods very quickly More efficient method of transporting goods and people

Steamboat

Transportation Clipper Ship Long, slender, and fast sea-going ships which could cross the Atlantic quickly (as well as sail to the Pacific). Record transatlantic time for a clipper was 12 days in 1844 (New York to Liverpool, England). Mayflower took 66 days to make the same voyage.

Clipper Ship ( The Flying Cloud )

Roads & Canals U.S. needed better transportation systems Erie Canal – created a water route between New York City and the Great Lakes Unified 2 sections of the country Trade & goods flow throughout the U.S.

Erie Canal

Transportation Erie Canal helped New York city to become nation’s largest city 1830’s – nation began to use steam-powered trains to move goods & people

Telegraph Samuel Morse – invented a telegraph that would send pulses of electricity down a wire Morse code Telegraph lines spanned the country making communication quicker & easier

Farming inventions John Deere – invented a lightweight steel plow that made preparing soil much less work

Farming Inventions Cyrus McCormick – invented a reaper which cut through grain Cyrus McCormick New technology in farming allowed for more food quicker and cheaper HOW? The grain cut by this reaper fell on a platform, from which it was raked by a person walking beside the machine

The Cotton Gin Eli Whitney – invented the cotton gin – a machine for cleaning cotton One worker (slave) could clean as much as 50 pounds of cotton a day in comparison to 1 pound by hand This will lead to the need for more slaves to pick more cotton This will lead to the need for more slaves to pick more cotton

Cotton Gin

The Cotton Boom The cotton gin changed southern life: Caused cotton farmers to move westward – to Alabama, Mississippi & Louisiana More Native Americans driven off land – as southern farming moved More slaves needed – to pick more cotton as it was cleaned faster

Farming Inventions Agriculture/Farming Inventions