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Socil studys notes
notes
Question | Answer |
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Samuel F.B. Morse | in 1832 perfected the telegraph. |
Telegraph | a device that could send information over wires across great distances. |
Alfred Lewis | delveloped morse code. |
Morse code | different combination of dots and dashs that repersents a different letter of the alphabet. |
Note | in 1850s miles of telegraph lines where added each year. |
Note | At start of industrail revolution most of facteries where powered by water but in time factery owners started useing steam power. |
Note | people who used steam powerd facteries started to move the facteris closer to citys reduceing shipping prices and lowering workers wages and esay acses for workers. |
Note | people from rural areas and forigen nations flocked to cites for factery jobs. |
John Deere | in 1837 blacksmith john deere created a steel blade plow for hard soil for farmers. |
Cyrus McCormick | in 1831 Cyrus McCormick developed a new harvesting machine called the reaper that could cut quickly and effincently cut down wheat. |
Elias Howe | invented the sewing machine. |
Isaac Singer | imporved the sewing machine. |
Note | companies started using credits for items and mass produicing house hold and work tools. |
Note | prices of items which costed more before the revolotuin were cheaper after words. Examples of items-Clocks,safty pins. |