Agricultural and Industrial Revolution
Agricultural Inventions Jethro Tull: seed drill; horse drawn tool that dug up weeds Charles Townsend: crop rotation Jethro Wood: plow with replaceable blades Iron plows replaced wood plows
Seed Drill
Plow
Family Farm Ends Everyone helped out to make a living Certain inventions stopped that People go to cities to find work Industrial Revolution began
Spinning “Jenny”: 8x thread faster Mechanized Loom: Weaved cloth Water Powered Eli Whitney: “Cotton Gin” deseeded cotton Industrial Revolution: Textiles
Spinning Jenny
Mechanized Loom
Cotton Gin
Steam Engines and boats Transcontinental Railroad Water/Transportation
Heat metal differently makes it stronger Steel machines Steel
Battery Samuel Morse invented Morse Code Telegraph Communication
First Battery - Alessandro Volta
Telegraph Machine