Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Late 1800's: Transportation & Technology and how it influenced the way people lived and worked
- REVOLUTIONARY INVENTIONS
- Eli Witney's inventions
- Eli Witney built the first WATER MILL to power the Mechanical Spinning Loom
- Cotton Gin created took the seeds out of cotton
- This made it so the slaves did not have to pick the seeds out of the cotton
- A team of slaves could only pick 1 pound of cotton a week.
- The cotton plant would cut the hands of those who picked it.
- Eli Whitney did not know that it would increase the Slave industry.
- The slave owners would buy the Cotton Gin and purchase more slaves to run it so they could produce more cotton, therefore making more money.
- Samuel Slater's blueprints of the Mechanical Spinning Loom from Europe
- Samuel Slater dressed as a farmer to get to America in order to sneak the blueprints over to America.
- Francis Lowell and the Spinning Loom
- Invented the Factory System
- The factory System is where there are many different machines in one big warehouse.
- The factories were dangerous because people had to move between the machines without regard to safety.