inventors and inventions

James Watt

steam engine (was used to power steamboats, trains, and factories in the industrial revolution and greatly increased production of goods)

Eli Whitney

cotton gin (made producing cotton much simpler and easier, thus increasing the production of fabric goods and th need for more slaves in the south)

Samuel Slater

textile machinery (brought the idea of the textile mill used in England to the U.S.)           

Richard Awkright

water frame (spinning machine powered by water that produced a cotton yarn suitable for warp (lengthwise threads)

Edmund Cartwright

power loom (increased the production of woven fabrics and reduced the need for skilled hand weavers)

Peter Cooper

steam locomotive

Robert Fulton

Steam boat

Cyrus McCormick

mechanical reaper (made collecting crops from the ground much easier)

John Deere

steel plow (made planting crops a lot easier by pulling up the ground and creating rows to plant crops)

Samuel Morse

telegraph/morse code

Alexander Graham Bell

Telephone