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1800s inventions timeline
1793
Eli Whittney
Cotton Gin
Developed in the 1793 by Eli Whittney
Cotton Gin
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A cotton gin – meaning "cotton engine" – is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.
The first successful steamboat was the Clermont, which was built by American inventor Robert Fulton.
Clermont was made in 1807.
Steamboats proved a popular method of commercial and passenger transportation along the Mississippi River and other inland U.S. rivers in the 19th century. Their relative speed and ability to travel against the current reduced the time and expense of shipping.
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Erie Canal
Erie Canal
Built between 1817 and 1825, the original Erie Canal traversed 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo. It was the longest artificial waterway and the greatest public works project in North America. The canal put New York on the map as the Empire State—the leader in population, industry, and economic strength.
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Governor Dewitt Clinton officially opened the Erie Canal as he sailed the packet boat Seneca Chief along the Canal from Buffalo to Albany.
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The erie canal was finished in 1825
Telegraph
the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.
Telegraph
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Developed in the 1830s and 1840s
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The telegraph was invented by Samuel Morse and other inventors
Water Wheel
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In 1839, Lorenzo Dow Adkins of Perry Township, Ohio received a patent for another water wheel innovation, the spiral-bucket water wheel.
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The water wheel was patented in 1839
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A water wheel is a machine for converting the energy of flowing or falling water into useful forms of power, often in a watermill. Some water wheels are fed by water from a mill pond, which is formed when a flowing stream is dammed. A channel for the water flowing to or from a water wheel is called a mill race
Assembly line
An assembly line is a manufacturing system of mass production in which a finished product is manufactured in a step-by-step process involving interchangeable parts added in a sequential manner as it moves continuously past an arrangement of workers and machines.
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The assembly line was invented in 1913