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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Innovations in the Early-1800s Project

Below is a list of inventions and inventors that changed America life in the early 1800s. You will be responsible for one (1) of these. This project is due on Monday, February 25, 2013. See your assignment sheet for more information.

Robert Fulton / steamboat
Samuel Morse / telegraph
John Deere / steel plow
Cyrus McCormick / reaper
Eli Whitney / cotton gin
Louis Pasteur / Pasteurization
Peter Durand / tin can
George Stevenson / locomotive
William Murdoch / gas light
Fredrick Koenig / improved printing press
John Walker / matches
W.A. Burt / typewriter
Barthelemy Thimonnier / sewing machine
Jacob Perkins / ether ice machine
Francis Pettit Smith / propellor
Samuel Colt / revolver
Charles Goodyear / vulcanization
Edmund Cartwright / power loom
Edward Jenner / smallpox vaccine
Alessandro Volta / battery
Joseph Aspdin / Portland cement
William Morton / inhalation anesthesia


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