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Industrial Revolution : Important Inventions

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1 Industrial Revolution 1750-1800: Important Inventions
Spinning Jenny, James Hargreaves, 1764 Water Frame, Richard Arkwright, 1771 Spinning Mule, Samuel Crompton, 1779 Power Loom, Edmund Cartwright, 1785 Chlorine Bleach, Claude Louis Berthollet, 1785 Steam Engine, James Watt, 1769 Screw-cutting Lathe, Henry Maudslay, 1797 Interchangeable Manufacture, Eli Whitney, 1798

2 Industrial Revolution: Problems of the Factory System
Recruiting/Training Workers Explosive Growth in Mill Towns Supervisors, No Background Upper Management, Sons or Relatives

3 Industrial Revolution: Industrial Development in America
Fist advanced textile mill was built in 1790, 269 mills in 1810 Canals (1790~1830): William Weston Railroad (1830~1850): John Stevens Telegraph line (1844~1860): Samuel Morse Steel making (1870~1900): Andrew Carnegie

4 Industrial Revolution: Development of Eng. Education
Apprenticeship, 18th century First Eng. School: 1747 in France  Ecole des Ponts at Chaussees (School of Bridges and Roads) US Military Academy at West Point, 1802 Civil Eng. Program at West Point, 1817 First Eng. School: Norwich (Connecticut) Univ. (1819) Rensselear Polytechnic Institute (1823), Union College (1845), Harvard, Yale, Michigan (1847) Morrill Land Grant Act, 1862


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