new technologies and transportation
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New Technologies and Transportation. Transportation Revolution. Rapid improvement of speed and cost Changed the way people traveled and shipped goods Made possible by the steam engine. Robert Fulton. Created the 1 st successful Steamboat Called the “Clermont”. Peter Cooper. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Transportation Revolution
Rapid improvement of speed and cost
Changed the way people traveled and shipped goods
Made possible by the steam engine
Robert Fulton
Created the 1st successful Steamboat
Called the “Clermont”
Peter Cooper
Built one of the first locomotives
Called “Tom Thumb”
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Gibbons wanted to run his boats between NY and NJ, Ogden sued because he had the rights to NY
It reached the Supreme Court where Gibbons won
Marshall’s ruling reinforced federal government authority over states
Communication by wire
Samuel Morse develops the telegraph
Sends signal through wire using Morse code
Trans continental line finished in 1861
Agricultural Improvements
Made farming possible in mid-west
Made farming faster
John Deere invents the steel plow which can slice through plains dirt
Cyrus McCormick
develops mechanical reaper
allows farmers to buy on credit
The Sewing Machine
Invented by Elias Howe
Isaac Singer - improved sewing machine which is simple to run
Women began earning money sewing at home