Key People-Chapter 13 Industrial Growth in the North

Blacksmith that invented the first steel-bladed, self-cleaning plow

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Morse

• Robert Fulton

• John Deere

• Cyrus McCormick

Built the first full-sized steam-powered boat in America

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Morse

• Robert Fulton

• John Deere

• Peter Cooper

Patented a large spinning machine called the Water Frame that could create dozens of threads at once

• Richard Arkwright

• Samuel Slater

• Isaac Singer

• Cyrus McCormick

Designed a new harvesting machine that made it quicker, easier, and cheaper to grow and cut down wheat

• Eli Whitney

• Isaac Singer

• Cyrus McCormick

• John Deere

First used the idea of employing young, local, unmarried women to both spin and weave in one mill

• Richard Arkwright

• Samuel Slater

• Eli Whitney

• Francis Cabot Lowell

Developed the idea of interchangeable parts

• Richard Arkwright

• Samuel Slater

• Eli Whitney

• Robert Fulton

Studied electricity and magnetism and put them together in a practical machine, with the invention of the telegraph in 1832

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Morse

• Cyrus McCormick

• John Deere

Became the largest manufacturer of sewing machines in America

• Cyrus McCormick

• Eli Whitney

• Isaac Singer

• John Deere

Founded the Lowell Labor Reform Association in 1844 & fought for shorter work hours

• Eli Whitney

• Cyrus McCormick

• Isaac Singer

• Sarah Bagley

Mechanic who memorized British textile mill designs and brought them to America

• Richard Arkwright

• Samuel Slater

• Francis Cabot Lowell

• Cyrus McCormick