IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY

NEW TECHNOLOGY, INVENTORS (FACTORY AND AGRICULTURE)

• Samuel Slater

• Eli Whitney

• Elias Howe & Issac Singer

• John Deere

• Cyrus McCormick

IMPACT ON SOCIETY (FACTORY, AGRICULTURE)• Samuel Slater- “Father of Factory System”

• First successful water-powered roller spinning textile mill, Slater Mill (1793)

• Spread to Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire

• 1815 Providence, 140 cotton manufacturers

• Eli Whitney

• Cotton Gin (1794)

• 50x more effective than separating by hand

• Flourished in South

• Machine-made inter-changeable parts, muskets (1850)

• Flourished in north

CONTINUED..

• Elias Howe (1846) and Issac Singer (1850s)

• Inventers of sewing machine

• Foundation of clothing industry

• Made in factories, than homes

• Cyrus McCormick

• First mechanical mower-reaper to harvest grain

• quicker and cheaper harvesting of grain

• John Deere (1837)

• Steel plow

• Speed up farming across the Midwest

IMPACT ON SOCIETY (COMMUNICATION, AND TRANSPORTATION)

People

• Samuel Morse

• Cyrus Field

• Robert Fulton

• Dewitt Clinton

“Roads”

• Cumberland Road

• Lancaster Turnpike

• 1st Railroad

• Pony Express

COMMUNICATION

• Samuel Morse (1844)

• First telegraph message (Baltimore to Capitol Building)

• Cyrus Field (1858)

• Telegraph cable between US and Europe

• Instant communication with Europe

• Pony Express (1860-1861)

• West’s most direct means of communication (Missouri to California)

TRANSPORTATION

• Lancaster Turnpike (1795)

• Hard road from Philadelphia to Lancaster, PA

• Economic expansion westward

• Robert Fulton (1807)

• First steamboat, Clermont

• Increase in trade, no concern for weather or water current

• Cumberland Road AKA The National Road

• Maryland to Illinois 625 miles

CONTINUED…

• Dewitt Clinton’s “Big Ditch” (1804)

• Erie Canal, between Lake Eerie and Hudson River

• Shorten expense and time of transportation

• First Railroad (1828)

• By 1860, 30,000 miles of railroad tracks

• Increase in trade

• Opened west, connected raw materials

• To markets and factories

IN THE FUTURE

• More inventors throughout rest of 19th-early 20th century (productivity)

• Foundations of mid-1800s set stage for future inventions

• Light bulb (Thomas Edison)

• Telephone (Alexander Bell)

• Automobile (Karl Benz)

• Impact of these and other inventions are enormous