| A | B |
|---|
| Samuels Slater | British textiles worker who left Britain illegally to bring a secret to America: how to copy new machines for making thread and cloth |
| Industrial Revollution | Began in Britain in 18th century; factory machines replaced hand tools; large-scale manufacturing replaced famring as main form of work |
| factory system | brought many workers and machines to produce goods together under one roof |
| Lowell mills | textile factory built in Waltham, MA in 1813; factory spun raw cotton into yarn and wove it into cloth on power looms built by Cabot Lowell; Lowell built a factory town full of mills that hired farm birls |
| interchangeable parts | parts that are exactly alike, allowing easy repairs of machines, faster production, and |
| Robert Fulton | invented a steamboat that could move against current or strong wind--faster than sailing ships |
| Samuel B. Morse | demonstrated first telegraph in 1837; machine sentlong and short pulses of electricity along a wire; pulses could be translated into letter of a messge |
| John Deere | blacksmith who invented a lightweight plow with a steel cutting edge in 1836; designed for rich, heavy Midwestern soil; made farming easier and faster |
| Eli Whitney | invented use of interchangeable parts in 1801 for making mjskets |
| Clermont | first steam ship; bult by Robert Fulton; traveled between New York and Albany in record time |
