new technologies change america. focus for today: mid-1800s improvements in transportation...
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New Technologies Change America
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Focus for Today:Mid-1800s Improvements in
• Transportation
• Communication
• Agriculture
• Home Technology
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Transportation Revolution
•Steamboats - Robert Fulton creates the Clermont, a steam boat,
and runs it on the Hudson River in 1807 Faster than sailboats and doesn’t need wind
•Trains - Peter Cooper creates the Tom Thumb in 1830 US has 2800 miles of track in 1840 30,000 miles of track by 1860 - mostly in the North
(outbreak of Civil War)
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A Bit of Local History:
Jamestown, NY and the Train
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Jamestown’s First Train Station was at the base of Cherry Street from 1865 to 1897.
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Our second train depot was located west of the original near Main Street.It served the city from 1897 to 1926
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Jamestown’s fourth station still stands at the base of Layfayette (across the street from the JSB Ice Arena)
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Telegraph
•Samuel Morse figures out how to send electrical pulse over wires
•Morse Code - system of sounds where each group of sounds is a letter (short sounds are called dots, long are dashes)
•Allows people to instantly communicate over great distances
•1861 - First transcontinental line completed
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Agricultural Improvements
•Steel Plow - John Deere creates a plow that will not bend easily in the hard, midwestern soil
•Reaper - Cyrus McCormick becomes fantastically wealthy with this machine that cuts wheat behind a horse
•Cotton Gin - Eli Whitney’s invention makes cotton production profitable, increasing the demand for slaves
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Home Technology
•Sewing Machine - allows for people at home to make clothing much quicker and easier
• Isaac Singer - improves the machine by making it pedal driven
• Icebox - allows people to keep cooled food longer
• Indoor Plumbing - wealthy people can put pumps inside of homes (first floor only)
•Matches created
•Safety pins invented
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