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Impact of Technology

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”

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Impact of Technology

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  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) • 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. Slater’s Mill

  6. Cotton Gin

  7. Interchangeable Parts

  8. Isaac Singer’s Sewing Machine

  9. Elias Howe’s Sewing Machine

  10. Cyrus McCormick's mower-reaper

  11. John Deere's steel plow

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

  13. 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)

  14. Samuel Morse’s telegraph Receiver

  15. Pony Express

  16. Transatlantic Cable

  17. 1858 Atlantic Telegraph Cable

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. Robert Fulton’s Steamboat

  21. Early Plans of Lancaster Turnpike

  22. Cumberland Road

  23. Eerie Canal

  24. Major Railroads 1860

  25. 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

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