Industrial Revolution and Innovations

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Industrial Revolution

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A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.

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Samuel Slater

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Brought new spinning technologies from Britain to the U.S.

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Rhode Island System

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Samuel Slater's strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks

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Lowell System

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Dormitories for young women where they were cared for, fed, and sheltered in return for cheap labor, mill towns, homes for workers to live in around the mills.

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Textile

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A fabric made by weaving, used in making clothing.

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Spinning Jenny (1764)

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A machine that could spin several threads at once.

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Power Loom (1785)

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A loom operated mechanically, run by water putting the loom side by side with the spinning machines in factories, changed workers' job from running it to watching it, invented by Edward Cartwright, it speeded up the production of textiles.

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Interchangeable Parts

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Identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufacturing.

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Eli Whitney; Interchangeable Parts

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Made a system for making rifles out of interchangeable parts during the War of 1812; became basis for mass production methods in the new northern factories.

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Transportation Revolution

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A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation.