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Pages in category "19th-century American inventors" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 618 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Allentown, Pennsylvania, one of several centers of 18th and 19th century American industrialization Francis Cabot Lowell, whose Boston Manufacturing Company helped revolutionize American factories. In the mid-1780s, Oliver Evans invented an automated flour mill that included a grain elevator and hopper boy.
Eventually the American glass industry grew, and the second half of the century saw numerous innovations. The two most significant innovations of the 19th century were mechanical pressing and a new formula for high quality glass. Mechanical pressing increased productivity and allowed more of the public to afford glassware.
Many historians attribute baseball's origins to the English sports of stoolball and rounders as well as to the 18th and 19th century North American sports of Old Cat and Town ball, all early precursors to baseball. However, the bat-and-ball sports played in the United States, Europe, or elsewhere in the world prior to 1845 did not resemble the ...
With the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1794, American slaveholders had the means to make cotton production significantly more profitable. The era of King Cotton was underway by the early 1800s to such an extent that by the mid-19th century, southern slave plantations supplied 75% of the world's cotton. The introduction of the ...
From the first Apple computer to the COVID-19 vaccine, here are the most revolutionary inventions that were born in the U.S.A. in the past half-century.
The Market Revolution in the 19th century United States is a historical model that describes how the United States became a modern market-based economy.During the mid 19th century, technological innovation allowed for increased output, demographic expansion and access to global factor markets for labor, goods and capital.
Norbert Rillieux returned to France in the late 1850s, a few years before the start of the American Civil War. Race relations in the United States may have motivated part of his decision to do so since at one point, Rillieux became enraged when one of his applications for a patent was rejected because authorities falsely believed that he was a ...