Quiz Review - Mod 13.3.13.4

Improved the sewing machine and allowed customers to buy on credit and provided a repair service

• Isaac Singer

• Elias Howe

• James Watt

• Thomas Edison

Developed the steamboat in France and later the Clermont

• Robert Fulton

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Henry Ford

Impact of railroads on the economy in the 19th century

• They allowed manufacturers and farmers to transport products across the US more efficiently.

• They increased the cost of transporting goods significantly.

• They had no significant impact on the economy.

• They primarily benefited only the wealthy industrialists.

Allowed factories to be built closer to cities and not just by rivers and streams

• Electricity

• Wind Power

• Steampower

• Solar Energy

A device to quickly send information over wires across great distances

• Telegraph

• Telephone

• Television

• Telex

Industry that became one of the most powerful by 1860 in the US

• Railroads

• Textiles

• Steel

• Agriculture

Two main inventions of the Transportation Revolution

• Steamboats and Steam Locomotives

• Electric Cars and Bicycles

• Horse-drawn Carriages and Ferries

• Airplanes and Submarines

Allowed farming to be more efficient and fewer workers were needed

• New farming technology

• Traditional farming methods

• Manual labor techniques

• Organic farming practices

Made a steel plow to go through thick soil

• John Deere

• Eli Whitney

• Henry Ford

• Thomas Edison

Developed a new harvesting machine called the mechanical reaper to cut wheat, let customers buy on credit, and provided a repair department

• Cyrus McCormick

• Eli Whitney

• John Deere

• Henry Ford