Inventions
What is the spinning jenny?
A machine made it much faster to spin cotton into thread
What are factories?
These places used machines to make goods quickly.
Who is James Watt?
The person who improved the steam engine.
What are cities?
More people moved from farms to these places during the Industrial Revolution.
What are railroads?
This transportation system used tracks and steam-powered engines.
What is the steam engine?
A invention used steam power to run machines and trains.
What are cities?
Many factory workers moved to these crowded places for jobs.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This inventor is known for the telephone.
What are factories?
Children sometimes worked in these during the Industrial Revolution.
What are steamboats?
These boats were powered by steam engines.
What is the power loom?
An invention that helped factories make cloth quickly.
What are hours?
Workers often had to work many of these each day.
Who is Henry Ford?
This businessman created the Ford car company.
What is cheaper?
Machines helped make products more this.
What is the locomotive?
This invention helped people travel faster across land.
Who is Thomas Edison?
The inventor that created a practical light bulb.
What are working conditions?
It was often unsafe and unhealthy in factories.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This inventor helped improve electric lighting.
What are unions?
Workers began to form these groups to fight for better pay.
What are trains?
Goods could now be shipped much faster using these.
What is the telegraph?
An invention that let people to send messages over long distances.
What is coal?
Something many factories during the Industrial Revolution were powered by this.
Who is Eli Whitney?
He invented the cotton gin.
What is England?
The Industrial Revolution first began in this country.
What is coal?
This fuel powered many Industrial Revolution machines.