Inventors
What else did the inventor of Morse code invent?
What did the thresher do?
Quickly separated the grain from the stalk.
What does innovation mean?
New ideas or methods.
What did the locomotives do?
Take materials from mines and rivers where it could be sent where it needed to go.
What pulled the early trains?
Horses.
Who is the inventor of Morse code?
Samuel Morse.
What are three inventions that led to massive change in agriculture in the 1800's?
The steel tipped plow, the mechanical reaper, and the thresher.
What is another word for transformed?
Changed.
What did railroads improve?
Travel.
What powered the factories?
Water Power or steam power.
Which inventor designed and built the first American steam locomotive in 1830?
Peter Cooper.
Why was the telegraph invented?
Because people were settling and moving westward, so news needed to travel faster.
What is a Telegraph?
An apparatus that used electric signals to transmit messages.
What did the sewing machine improve?
Producing clothing on a large scale with less time.
What was one way the workers produced more product in the factories?
They divided the tasks among eachother.
What did Robert Fulton invent?
A steamboat.
What did the Mechanical Reaper do?
Sped up the harvesting of wheat.
What is the Morse code?
a series of dots and dashes representing the letters of the alphabet.
What was the effect of the telegraph?
Messages could be sent faster across the U.S so it improved communication.
What changed the way Americans worked, travelled, and communicated?
The technological innovations in the 1800's.
Who invented the sewing machine in 1846?
Elias Howe
Where could the steamboats travel?
Upstream.
What is a clippership?
An improved sailing ship that made travel faster.
How did the steamboat improve their life?
The steamboat could travel upstream and carry goods and passengers for cheaper.
Factories were built to bring ________ workers together.
Specialized.