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Java Games: Flashcards, matching, concentration, and word search. |
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The Academy: Inventors, Inventions and Transportation in the Industrial Age
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| Steamboat | Made profitable by Robert Fulton in 1807 |
| Cotton Gin | Invented by Eli Whitney |
| Bessemer Steel Process | method developed in the 1850s for making stronger steel at a lower cost. |
| Railroad | a road having parallel steel rails that form a track for the wheels of a train |
| Locomotive | Another word for train. |
| Canal | a waterway constructed across land, used by ships or boats or for supplying water to dry areas. |
| Industrial Revolution | Gradual process by which machines replaced hand tools, and steam and othe rnew sources of power replaced human and animal power. |
| Eli Whitney | Inventor of the idea of interchangeable parts, the cotton gin |
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8th Grade U.S. History |
Bedichek Middle School |
| Austin, TX |
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