A boat shaped piece of wood to which yarn was attached. It doubled the work a weaver could do in a day.
What is the flying shuttle?
100
A building or buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled.
What are Factories?
100
Artificial waterways constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland or to convey water for irrigation.
What are Canals?
100
A plow is a farm tool with one or more heavy blades that breaks the soil and cut a furrow (small ditch) for sowing seeds. A moldboard is the wedge formed by the curved part of a steel plow blade that turns the furrow.
What is the Plow & Moldboard?
200
Invented spinning mule.
Who is Samuel Cromption?
200
Made thread that was stronger, finer and more consistant than earlier spinning machines.
What is the spinning mule?
200
A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on financial risk to do so.
What is an Entreprenuer?
200
A boat that is propelled by a steam engine.
What is a Steam Boat?
200
A seed drill is a sowing device that precisely positions seeds in the soil and then covers them.
What are Seed Drills?
300
Invented the Cotton Gin.
Who is Eli Whiteny?
300
Ran by water power and speed up weaving, invented in 1787 by Edmund Cartwright.
What is the Power Loom?
300
The manufacture of many identical products by the division of labor into many small repetitive tasks. This method was introduced into the manufacture of pottery by Josiah Wedgwood and into the spinning of cotton thread by Richard Arkwright.
What is mass production?
300
A track or set of tracks made of steel rails along which passenger and freight trains run.
What are Railroads?
300
A short-handled farming tool with a semicircular blade, used for cutting grain, lopping, or trimming.A person or machine that harvests a crop. Someone who helps to gather the harvest
What are Sickles, Reapers, & Harvesters?
400
Scottish Engineer who equiped road beds with a layer of large stones for drainage.
Who is John McAdam?
400
A machine with a mechanically driven needle for sewing or stitching cloth.
What is the Sewing Machine?
400
Fabric made out of cotton, demand of the people encouraged inventors to mechanize manufacturing, power looms being the first machine in 1815
What is Textile?
400
Is an automobile that was produced by Henry Ford.
What is the Ford Model T?
400
Was another revolutionary device which allowed for much more efficient planting by allowing a horse to pull a plow quickly.
What is the horse hoe?
500
Invented the first reliable Steam Engine 1775.
Who is James Watt?
500
An engine that uses the expansion or rapid condensation of steam to generate power.
What is the Steam Engine?
500
Cheap iron led to mass production of object, manufactures reduced the cost of production by making parts that worked with various items.
What are interchangeable parts?
500
An expressway, esp. one on which a toll is charged.
What are Turnpicks?
500
Key player in popularizing root vegetables,he was famous for his cultivation of turnips and clover on his estate in Norfolk. He introduced the four-course rotation of crops which helped keep the ground good for farming almost all year. This cycle consisted of wheat, turnips, oats or barley, and clover