Timeline of Events
- 1780:
- American mechanics in the Northeast begin to apply principles learned from the English Industrial Revolution in their innovations on tools and machines.
- 1781:
- Oliver Evans invents machines to replace human labor in flour mills.
- 1790:
- Eighty percent of the nation's population is made up of farmers and ninety-five percent of the population lives in rural areas.
- 1790:
- Congress passes the first patent law.
- 1798:
- Eli Whitney proposes to make 4,000 muskets for the U.S. government, using new machine-making tools and interchangeable parts.
- 1807:
- Robert Fulton's steamboat, the Clermont, makes its maiden voyage from New York City to Albany, New York.
- 1807:
- Eli Terry builds four thousand clockworks on a tight schedule using the latest principles of mass...
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