How did the Industrial revolution effect U.S. history?
The Industrial Revolution effects us in every way, without it we would still have to make our own clothes, grow food by hand, we would have to walk or ride in a carriage everywhere we go. travel by boat would take months. life would be slow and filled to the brim with work!

what is a patent?

the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
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Eli Whitney's cotton gin patent from March 14, 1794
Thomas Edison's Patent Application For an incandescent light bulb 1880

"We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us."
Georg Büchner

industrial revolution
–noun

( sometimes initial capital letters ) the totality of the changes in economic and social organization that began about 1760 in England and later in other countries, characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines, as the power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry in large establishments.

Women in the industrial revolution

during the industrial revolution women started to lose their purpose,the factories made the clothes and they could buy food and other supplies from the market. Soon many women and girls went to work in the factory. They worked all day for slim wages. They worked 73 hours a week and often lived in dooms around the factory.

Child Labor

Since children were small and had the ideal size hands to move the little machine parts, they were often used in the mills .Work in the mills was dangerous and children would often lose fingers. Work lasted from 12 to 16 hours a day depending the season.

In the 1790s

If you were a British craftsmen in the 1790s the law would not allow you to leave Britain. Parliament didn't want the rest of the world to get their new technology.

Samuel Slater

1n 1789 a man named Samuel Slater pretended to be a farmer and stowed away to America. Slater had memorized how to build a mill, and in 1790 he built the first U.S. cotton mill in Rhode Island. Samuel was known as the father of the American Industrial Revolution.

Middle Class

The middle class

There used to only be the poor (the workers),and the rich (the rulers). But, during the Industrial Revolution things changed. A new class was introduced. It was called, the middle class. Most people were in the middle class. They could afford education and luxury items that the lower class could not. But unlike the upper class, they still had to work.

How did it all start?

It all started with the Agricultural Revolution. Before the Agricultural Revolution everything was done by hand. The women would make the clothes, cook the food, etc. The men would work their trade. Most men were farmers.

In those days there where only 2 classes the upper class and the lower class. The upper class consisted mostly of land owners, nobles, merchants, and men that were political leaders or high ranking officers. The lower class contained farmers, peasants, servants, etc.

The upper class owned all the land that the farmers worked on, so when the upper class started taking back the land, the farmers either had to earn their living in another way or make do with less land. The farmers who stayed, began to invent things to make work easier and get more food from the land. Some of these inventions were, the plow & moldboard, seed drills, machines that harvest - sickles, reapers, & harvesters. At this time people were also inventing things to make womens work easier like the spining jenny and the cotton gin. those who where not farmers and didn't have a job moved to the citys and worked in factorys.

These great men are only a portion of the inventors of the industrial revolution.

James Hargreaves

Although James Hargreaves had no formal education, he was interested in engineering. one day his Daughter jenny knocked over the family's spinning wheel, this gave Hargreaves the idea of the spinning jenny.

spinning jenny

Nikola Tesladuring his life he created countless inventions among the most famous are the florescent light bulb and the alternating current motor.Nikolas face is on the contemporary 100 Serbian dinar bill.he also introduced the Tesla effect.

"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything."
Nikola Tesla

Alexander Graham Bell

In the 1870s Alexander Graham bell and Elisha Gray both invented the telephone both having patented it just hours between each other, After a long legal battle Alexander won thus claiming the true patent.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself. "
Alexander Graham Bell

James Watt

James Watt was born Jan. 19 1736. He improved the steam engine (the ones before didn't work as well). Then in 1775 he created the first reliable Steam Engine. In addition he learned how to make a basic automation. The electrical Unit Watt was Named after him.

Eli Whitney

Was born Dec.8 1765 he was widely known as the inventor of the Cotton Gin. He received his patent on march 14, 1793. He also translated the idea of interchangeable parts.

Robert Fulton

was born on Nov.14^th 1765. He created the first reliable steam boat in 1807.

This is what Roberts first steam boat the Clermont may have looked like.

Samuel Morse

In 1835 Samuel Morse proved he could communicate using wire. Later the Morse code (named after Mr. Morse) was invented using . And - for letters in the alphabet

"If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity." Samuel Morse

Thomas Edison

Among Thomas Edisons most famous inventions are the Phonograph (voice recorder) and the Incandescent light bulb.

"I Never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."

Thomas A. Edison