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Inventor |Technology or Invention |Impact/Effect | |

|Eli Whitney, 1798 |Interchangeable parts |revolutionized the economy of the North |

|Eli Whitney, 1793 |Cotton gin |revolutionized the economy of the South; |

| | |greatly increases the demand for slaves; |

| | |deepens the sectional divide in the nation |

|Robert Fulton, 1807 |Steamboat |transportation of people and commerce greatly|

| | |impacted |

|1828 |First railroad appears in U.S. |will improve transportation between the |

| | |regions of the nation, will end the era of |

| | |the steamboat |

|John Deere, 1837 |Steel plow |allows farming to be more efficient and |

| | |profitable |

|Samuel Morse, 1837 |Morse code |huge implications for expanded communications|

|Elias Howe, 1845 |Sewing machine |would greatly impact the textile industry |

|Cyrus McCormick, 1847 |Mechanical reaper goes into mass production in |allows farming to be more efficient and |

| |U.S. |profitable |

|William Kelly, Henry Bessemer, 1850s |Bessemer Process |made a more flexible, durable, and |

| | |less-expensive brand of steel – railroads and|

| | |construction |

|Christopher Sholes, 1867 |Typewriter |Helped to change the work world, opening up |

| | |many opportunities for women |

|Alexander Graham Bell, 1876 |Telephone |greatly improved communications, improved the|

| | |speed of commerce, and opened up many |

| | |opportunities for women |

|Thomas A. Edison, 1879 |Electric light |allowed work to be done at night, increasing |

| | |industrial output |

|Wright Brothers – Orville and Wilbur, |Airplane |birth of the age of air-travel, and will |

|1903 | |ultimately have commercial and military |

| | |implications as well |

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