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    Inventions During The Industrial Revolution During the Industrial Revolution, inventors invented many revolutionary inventions. Those inventions revolutionized the whole country. During the time of the Industrial Revolution, America is rapidly growing. It was transformed from a predominantly rural agrarian society to an industrial economy society. The economy was growing fast by that time. The inventions played an important role in the Industrial Revolution. Cotton gin provoked a revolution in

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    creative inventions that make life easier today. Just imagine life without television, a microwave, or even air conditioning. Well, thanks to the 1930’s and 1940’s you aren’t devastated and grateful for what you have. In the early 1930’s air conditioning was invented by Willis Carrier. It was not like the air conditioning we have today, back then the air conditioning systems were not aimed at human comfort, however they were designed to control the humidity. Another invention that many

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    productive inventors in history while some of the invention never made to pass the drawing phase; the time he spends on his inventions is equal to his art. Leonardo was never afraid to look beyond the traditional thinking; one would say that he thinks outside of the box, or the term “dream big” would apply to DA Vinci. Da Vinci conceived up flying machines, war machines, architect/innovations, and water/land machines. One of his most famous inventions was the aerial screw, which is the name at the time

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    Inventions and or Specific Inventors Inventions and or specific inventors have had a big impact on society. Between the 18th and 19th century there were many inventions being built during the industrial revolution. Some inventions that played a role during the industrial revolution were the spinning jenny, steam engine, cotton gin and many other things. Some of them were game changers like the spinning jenny which lead to the mass production of textile and the steam engine

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    Are mistakes key to discoveries yes, because always in human history great inventions have always been discovered by accident. For example, one day a man named Percy spencer had helped change our kitchens forever when he brought a piece of chocolate into a factory and dropped it onto the floor, and after it melted he had discovered how to make an invention that would change the world and help make cooking easier therefore he had made a company that would help him make a device that would mimic the

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    My presentation was on Military Inventions. Military inventions had an impact of the Industrial Revolution from the creating of the Maxim Machine gun to the Telegraph. The Maxim gun for example could replace 100 boots on the war field by using a belt full of bullets that is fed through the gun to fire appx. 500 rounds. The telegraph also helped military inventions and even influenced better technology for the future. The telegraph could send electronic pulses that translated into messages. This could

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    lasted for longer periods of time .Thomas thereafter went on to invent an electrical power system, so that people would have electricity and could use the light bulbs at home. It was Thomas Edison who was also responsible for the invention of Motion pictures . Thomas created equipment that would record and playback images so that they could be watched later on. It is because of Thomas Edison that we are now able to watch movies. Before Thomas Edison died he said”

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    1. What inventions do you think have been most important in U.S. history and why? a. In my opinion, the automobile and the utilization of electricity have been two of the most important inventions in United States history. The invention of the car expanded our horizons in the fact that citizens were able to travel, but also because people could live in places other than the city. Also, the utilization of electricity has become a part of life that we would not know how to live without. Electricity

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    The Invention Of Hugo Cabret The book “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” by Brian Selznick is a wonderful children’s book about magic, friendship, and family. Hugo Cabret is an orphan who lives with his drunk uncle in a train station. His uncle happens to go missing and Hugo is in charge of running the clocks in the train station. Hugo ends up needing to fix a mysterious machine called the automaton and decides that it is a good idea to steal a mechanical mouse to help fix it, but he gets caught. George

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    There were many inventions that were created in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that had a huge impact on life in the United States. Some of these inventions were the telephone, the electric light bulb, and the airplane. The telephone was created by Alexander Graham Bell, the light bulb by Thomas Edison, and the airplane by Wilbur and Orville Wright. The telephone completely changed how we communicate. Alexander Bell was a professor at Boston University when he built a device that

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