Specific Inventions During The Industrial Revolution

shape our society today, and their inventions are what led us to improvements on almost

The cotton gin has impacted America significantly. It has not only affected our country but also slaves and even the civil war. Some people believe that it started the Civil War. The cotton gin was created in 1794 by a man named Eli Whitney. This machine completely changed the production of cotton. It greatly speeded up the process of removing all of the small seed that cotton contained. This amazing tool changed the face of southern agriculture. Before this life changing invention, the United States produced 750,000 bales of cotton each year. This cotton was not easy to produced. It included bending over the entire day and then picking out each individual seed which was the hardest part. At the end of each day one person would end up with

Many engineers were starting to create beneficial inventions that would impact many lives. For example, Henry Bessemer was an English engineer who created the Bessemer process, a process of producing steel. This made steel an

The cotton gin was a simple machine which de-seeded cotton. Eli Whitney created this cotton gin in 1793 when he was in Georgia. When living on a plantation in Georgia, he heard some visitors complaining about how cotton was a nice crop to have but took too long to seperate from the seeds (Patchett, 17). The visitors were told about how Eli was a good mechanic and saw some of what Eli had made. The visitors at the plantation went to Eli asking him to make something to help with this cotton problem. At first Eli was reluctant to make anything for the men because he, as he said, “had no extraordinary mechanical skills”(Patchett,18). Secondly, he said he knew nothing of cotton for he had never seen cotton or cotton seeds. Then Whitney changed his mind knowing he couldn’t resist the challenge and began a search for cotton. Once he found some cotton it only took Eli a few days to have a machine in mind (Patchett, 19).

The cotton Gin was designed to remove cotton from its seeds. Before the cotton gin the process of separating the cotton from the seed took hard work, tiring and time consuming to do by hand. Thanks to the cotton gin slaves no longer had to do this tedious work; now they could just run the cotton through the Cotton

Some of the inventions were: Flying Shuttle invented by John Kay and it increased speed of weaving, Spinning Jenny invented by James Hargreaves and it spun 8-10 threads at a time, Water Frame invented by Richard Arkwright and it was a large spinning machine driven by water in factories, Power Loom invented by Edward Cartwright and it was water powered; automatically wove thread into cotton, Cotton Gin invented by Eli Whitney and it separated seeds from raw cotton. (doc 6). Some other inventions helped in agriculture those inventions are: horse-drawn seed drill invented by Jethro and it planted seeds in a straight rows, Stock breeding invented by Robert Blakewell and it improved quality of animals to produce more meat, milk, and wool, Mechanical Reaper invented Cyrus McCormick and it made grain harvesting easier (doc 7). These inventions helped produce more resources and do it faster than before they were

The cotton gin and the assembly line may seem at first glance like they are not that important but their lasting effects explain why things like manufacturing operate the way they do today. The cotton gin is a simple box. It has gears and a screen that with a crank on it that, when turned, is used to separate the cotton seeds from the cotton. The assembly line involves a pathway where a car or other item moves from station to station. A specially trained worker at each station will work on one specific area of the car or item before passing it along to the next station. The cotton gin and the assembly line affected history through the wars that both influenced and the industries, such as modern factories and fashion, that they contributed

Additionally, the greatly expanded supply of cotton and slavery creating even bigger demand for cotton related products and improved machine designs that improved the invention with metal which improve the effectiveness of the machine. This led to the invention of many other machines that had the similar

     Before the invention of the cotton gin, Americans would remove cottonseed by hand. Slaves were hired to complete this procedure. This would take a very long time and something had to be done. Later on, a man named Eli Whitney invented a device called the cotton gin. The cotton gin is a machine for removing the seeds from cotton fiber. His invention could produce up to fifty pounds of cotton each

The cotton gin, invented by a man of the name Eli Whitney, might be one of the most influential invention in its time. This was one of the most important inventions of the industrial revolution and shaped the the South into what it has become today. Whitney's invention made cotton into a very profitable crop, which helped the economic situation of slavery. Despite the impact of his invention, Whitney lost his profits in legal battles over patent infringement, and nearly filed bankruptcy.

There are some famous inventors that I think have changed America’s history because of their inventions. Eli Whitney inventing the cotton gin, Nikola Tesla inventing the first AC motor, and Elijah McCoy inventing the lubricator for steam engines.

I think after having so many discssions thus far about slavery and the cotton industry being significant to American History; I'm going to have to choose The Cotton Gin as the one of the most important innovations of The Market Revolution.

This incredible machine allowed to speed up the process of removing the seeds from cotton fiber than manual cotton separation, which required more work and time without it. This was proven that production was growing because in 1830 bales of cotton was 750,000 but by 1850 it was over 2.85 million bales changing the textile production and increasing jobs for demand in these cotton gins. The cotton gin also had a negative impact in the united states because it led to the increase of slavery for the demand of cotton workers to produce more cotton. The cotton gin fueled the revolution to continue even more, but there was one more invention that changed, which moved people into more technology and

To me, the most important invention of the Industrial Age is the telephone. It is the most important for several reasons. First of all, the telephone helped people communicate with others instantaneously. Before the telephone, the only way to communicate was to send a letter or travel to convey your message. This process could take up to two weeks or a year depending on the location of the recipient. With the telephone, many people have instant communication at their fingertips. Although the telephone could only be afforded by the wealthy at that time, many middle class families were able to have a telephone installed in their home after a few years. Finally, the telephone helped the growth of many businesses. The telephone helped many businesses

James Watt was born 19th January 1736 at Greenock and at this time no one would have even imagined his effect on the Industrial Revolution that was to occur within that century. When James was fifteen he had read books about and become accustomed to Philosophy (similar to modern physics). He had also completed many of his own chemical experiments and even started produce and construct his own products such as a small electronic device that startled his companions.