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Steam Engine : the new engine for the locomotive
Locomotive : a new machine built for transportation of people and items that runs on steam
Threshing machine : machine that separates kernels from wheat in their husks
Mechanical reaper : device that cuts grain
Lowell mills : mills located in the factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts
factory systems : production using many workers and machines in one building, like an assembly line
industrial revolution : economic changes of the late 1700s, when manufacturing replaced farming
Samuel Slater : invented first water powered textile mill in America
Robert Fulton : inventor of Americas first widely successful steamboat
Peter Cooper : inventor of steam powered locomotive
Samuel Morse : inventor of telegraph
Early Industry and Inventions
economic changes of the late 1700s, when manufacturing replaced farming
invented first water powered textile mill in America
a new machine built for transportation of people and items that runs on steam
production using many workers and machines in one building, like an assembly line
inventor of Americas first widely successful steamboat
inventor of telegraph
mills located in the factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts
machine that separates kernels from wheat in their husks