Inventors
Invented the cotton gin
Who is Eli Whitney?
A device that separates cotton fibers from the seeds
What is the cotton gin?
A system of communication that represents the alphabet and numbers through the use of dots and dashes
What is Morse Code?
Known for inventing the lightbulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
Invented the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
A machine used for spinning wool or cotton
What is the spinning jenny?
Networks of iron rails on which trains travel at high speeds
What are railroads?
The use of machinery to make goods
What is Manufacturing?
Invented the telegraph
Who is Samuel Morse?
A machine that uses heat and steam pressure to create mechanical motion
What is the steam engine?
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Known for developing Morse Code
Who is Samuel Morse?
Invented the spinning jenny
Who is James Hargreaves?
A device used for transmitting and receiving messages over long distances
What is the telegraph?
The development of a system that transforms an economy from focusing on agriculture to a reliance of manufacturing
What is Industrialization?
There was a growing demand for this nonrenewable resource during the Industrial Revolution
What is coal?
Two people that are known for inventing the steam engine
Who is Thomas Newcomen and James Watt?
It converts electric energy into light energy
What is the light bulb?
An economy where the market determines prices, products, and services rather than the government
What is Free Enterprise?
Where is Great Britain?