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Cotton Gin Patent. It shows sawtooth gin blades, which were not part of Whitney's original patent
Career inventions
Interchangeable parts Cotton gin Rifles
Mass production of consumer goods helped revolutionize the ways in which Americans lived.
Locomotive
Steamboat
Steam engine
Textile factory
Person James Watt Eli Whitney
Nikola Tesla
Rudolf Diesel
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Henry Ford
Induction Electric Motor Diesel Engine First Airplane
Model T Ford, Assembly Line
Date
1775 1793, 1798 1807
workplace and produced goods for distribution over a wide area.
The first factory: a cotton textile mill in Pawtucket
Rhode Island build by Samue Slater,which combined carding,roving and spinning operation.
● The census of 1890 wasthe first in which the output of American factories was shown to exceed that of American farms.Thereafter,industry in the United States grew by leaps and bounds.
Regular Steamboat service on the Hudson River
Telegraph
Sewing Machine
Improves and markets Howe's Sewing Machine
Transatlantic Cable
Telephone
Phonograph, Incandescant Light Bulb
1836 1844 1851
1866 1876 1877, 1879 1888 1892 1903
1908, 1913
The first
(in the 1780s,“bank
commercial bank notes ” represented)
Bank
Bnking policy
(Highly controversial, Shortlived)
Unit5
AMERICAN ECONOMY
Industrial Revolution Free Enterprise The Roots of Affluence American Agriculture
Four developments
Introduction of the factory system
Investors enjoyed limited liability
In 1837,Connecticut, corporate charter
●The construction of railroads beginning in the 1830s,marked the start of a new era for the United States.By providing transportation links between farflung parts of the United States,the railroads increased business activities and the spread of settlements.
National bank
(in 1863,a standard paper currency)
Sole proprietorship
Efficiently in rising capital needed by expanding businesses
Partnership
Corporation
Robert Fulton
Samuel F. B. Morse Elias Howe Isaac Singer
Cyrus Field Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Invention
First reliable Steam Engine
Cotton Gin, Interchangeable parts for muskets
Turned the northeastern region into an important manufacturing center
The increased demand for cotton made the USA became a major cotton producer
Eli Whitney
In 1913,the automaker Henry Ford introduced the “moving assembly”line.This was a variation on the earlier practice of continuous assembly.It made possible a major saving in labour and time costs.
“American system” of mass production
The application of new technologies to Industrial tasks
Emergency of new forms of business organization
Feature: gatherห้องสมุดไป่ตู้d many workers together in one
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