Inventors, Inventions, and Court Cases

Method of making stronger steel by adding iron.

• Bessemer Process

• Welding

• Sewing

Mechanical Reaper

• Robert Fulton

• George Washington

• Cyrus McCormick

Cotton Gin and Interchangeable parts

• James Watt

• Eli Whitney

• Alexander Hamilton

Steel Plow

• Wrangler

• John Deere

• James Watt

Brought the textile industry from England to the US ("secret spy")

• Eli Whitney

• John Adams

• Samuel Slater

Steam Engine

• John Deere

• James Watt

• Abraham Lincoln

Steamboat, the Clermont

• James Monroe

• Robert Fulton

• Samuel Slater

First to hire women in the workplace

• Francis Lowell

• David Crockett

• Erie Canal

First artificial waterway connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean

• Boston Harbor

• Galveston Bay

• Erie Canal

Bessemer Process

• Trying to make steel weaker

• Method of making stronger steel by adding iron

• A steam engine