1. Impact of Technology

2. New technology, Inventors (factory and agriculture)
Samuel Slater
Eli Whitney
Elias Howe & Issac Singer
John Deere
Cyrus McCormick

3. 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

4. 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

5. Impact on Society (Communication, and transportation)
People
Samuel Morse
Cyrus Field
Robert Fulton
Dewitt Clinton
“Roads”
Cumberland Road
Lancaster Turnpike
1st Railroad
Pony Express

6. 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 ( )
West’s most direct means of communication (Missouri to California)

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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