Late 1800's: Transportation & Technology and how it influenced the way people lived and worked

Late 1800's: Transportation & Technology and how it influenced the way people lived and worked

1. REVOLUTIONARY INVENTIONS

   • Eli Witney's inventions
     • Eli Witney built the first WATER MILL to power the Mechanical Spinning Loom
     • Cotton Gin created took the seeds out of cotton
       • This made it so the slaves did not have to pick the seeds out of the cotton
         • A team of slaves could only pick 1 pound of cotton a week.
         • The cotton plant would cut the hands of those who picked it.
     • Eli Whitney did not know that it would increase the Slave industry.
       • The slave owners would buy the Cotton Gin and purchase more slaves to run it so they could produce more cotton, therefore making more money.
   • Samuel Slater's blueprints of the Mechanical Spinning Loom from Europe
     • Samuel Slater dressed as a farmer to get to America in order to sneak the blueprints over to America.
   • Francis Lowell and the Spinning Loom
     • Invented the Factory System
       • The factory System is where there are many different machines in one big warehouse.
         • The factories were dangerous because people had to move between the machines without regard to safety.