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Invented cotton gin and interchangeable parts for the musket; sped up cotton production and allowed slavery to continue (because cotton was once again profitable.)
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Eli Whitney
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invented the steamboat the Clermont
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Robert Fulton
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This process (invented by Sir Henry Bessemer) was a way of mass production of cheaper and stronger steel.
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Bessemer Process
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Steel plow-invented by____________-cut through tough prairie SOD (tough soil) in the Great Plains.
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John Deere
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______________ were used to pump water to the surface from deep wells in the Plains.
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Windmills
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It was invented by Joseph Glidden to fence in cattle and keep other cattle ranchers from grazing across their homesteads–ended the government’s open range system of grazing cattle.
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Barbed wire
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Inventor of the telephone
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Alexander Graham Bell
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He is associated with many inventions from his research lab in Menlo Park, NJ. Besides the phonograph and light bulb, he is credited with the invention of electricity
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Thomas Alva Edison
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Credited with the first manned flight in their “flying machine” (airplane) in Kittyhawk, NC in 1903.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright (or the Wright Brothers)
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Marconi found that messages could be sent over the air via ________________ waves. During the 20’s and 30’s, was the one appliance families didn’t want to do without.
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radio
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Agriscientist George Washington Carver invented many products at Tuskegee with the __________ and the sweet potato.
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peanut
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______________________Project – Codename for the building of the atomic bomb project in WWII. This invention ended the war in the Pacific against Japan.
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Manhattan
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New inventions during the age of exploration:
New strong sailing ship (with rudder for steering) Instrument that could tell direction with a magnetic needle Instrument that used the “stars” to aid in navigation |
Caravel
Compass Astrolabe |
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Movies were grand forms of entertainment starting the 1920’s. 1927 “______________________” was the first movie with sound. Even during the 1930’s, those who could “Spare a Dime” did so at the movies; was a form of escape- Snow White, King Kong, Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, and lavish movie musicals
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The Jazz Singer
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The assembly line (faster production AND CHEAPER!)- is associated with this man and his production of Model T’s beginning in the 1920’s.
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Henry Ford
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