The Boston Globe
February 21, 1856
Textile Industry
The textile industry is the design and mass production of yarn, cloth, clothing, and their distribution. Samuel Slater made the first textile mill in the United States. The industrial Revolution was that people started to invent/use machines to do the work instead of making things that were created by hand which was time consuming.
Samuel Slater
Samuel Salter was a very skilled inventor in Great Britain. At that time Great Britain was in a booming textile industry and it forbid mechanics from leaving Great Britain. Samuel saw that America wasn’t flourishing in the textile industry so he memorized Britain’s textile machines and fled to America. In the United States he set up the first successful cotton thread textile mill and by the time he died he owned most or all of 13 textile mills.
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney had the idea of interchangeable parts that solved the problem of muskets not being produced fast enough for the government's need because of a war that could happen with France. This expanded to all of the machines so now you could disassemble your machine and use similar parts
The Transportation Revolution
Steamboats
A couple of years ago, the steamboat was a very dangerous stress ride. But now, this mass burner of a lot of things is taking over all of the waterways. It can go both with and against the current. It is speedy and convenient for all that can afford it’s luxury. If you are rich and want to help out Alexander Hamilton and keep your money within the United States, then pay $200 for a luxury cruise for the one and only Clermont, invented by Robert Fulton!
Railroads
A person with a big imagination is the perfect man to become an inventor. Like the inventor Peter Cooper, he invented the American’s dream, less walking which also leads to the fact that we like to slack off a little and need to do less work. What Peter Cooper did exactly was he invented the first successful train, the Tom Thumb. He raced the Tom Thumb against a horse drawn railcar. At first as Latrobe put it, “the pace increased, the passengers shouted, the engine gained on the horse… Then the engine passes the horse, and a great hurrah hailed the victory.” But even if this man is great, he isn’t perfect. The Tom Thumb later broke down and the horse and rail car won the race. But this is a historic event. Your lucky that soon we will be able to ride inexpensively around the United States.
Spread of mills and Workers lives
As mills started to become popular, people started to change what they did in their normal day. Mills became the ultimate machines that could spin and weave thread quicker and more efficiently. More mills started to spring up near rivers and other water sources that were strong enough to push the water wheel that was created by Richard Arkwright.
Lowell System V.S Rhode Island System
The Lowell system and the Rhode Island System are totally different. The Lowell system is that they would hire young unmarried women and let them work for about 4 years at his mills. After their 4 years were up the girls could decide to keep working at the mills or could use the newly earned money and get married. The Rhode Island System was where Slater would hire whole families to work in his textile mills. He built houses to attract families and a company store, so they didn’t need to go long and far away to get food. Slater only paid the workers credit instead of money to use in the company store. Slowly the people would get into debt and they couldn’t leave until that debt was paid off.
Trade Unions and labor reforms
In my opinion labor reforms and trade unions should not be influencing the United States businesses. As being the boss of this newspaper, I should not need to pay these people more than I pay the regular workers. Even if they are a little better than the rest that doesn’t mean that they need more money. If they show that they are deserving, than I will rank them up, but that does not mean that I have to pay you more than the regular employee. These are my opinions on this topic, and mine alone. You don’t need to listen to me but listen to these words and learn the problem with these people.
Telegraph
Telegraph means a device that could send information over wires across great distances. This device was invented by Samuel F. B. Morse. What he did exactly did was invented a code that was a combination of dots and dashes that mean different letters. Like the famous combination SOS, which is, dot, dot, dot, dash, dash, dash. The first time this was used for communication was at the presidential candidates election.
Steam Power
Steam power was first used for regular trains. Then more things started to improve using steam power, like factories started using this miracle so they didn’t need to be around water sources to mass produce things. That made it possible to go closer to cities which made it easier to get jobs for some people who need one, which also is helping the everyday economy.
Steel plow
Reaper
In 1831 Cyrus McCormick developed a new harvesting machine called the mechanical reaper. He started to mass produce the reapers in a Chicago factories. With the combination if Deere’s plow and McCormick’s reaper, allowed farmers to plant and harvest huge fields.
Inventions at home
As companies and factories grow, they are now able to come back to some of the equipment that was already invented, like the clock. Sense the economy has improved, the companies could now sell it for less which poorer families could now afford them, like at $1.50. Also the companies started to use matches, safety pins, and the ice box.