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While he still lived in England, Samuel Slater heard that if he could 

help bring factories to America he could earn a lot of money. He 

worked his hardest to memorize the English factory plans and 

finally made his way across the big blue sea. When he got to 

America, he started to remake the machines from the factories in 

England. After a little while in 1791, he had successfully created 

the first efficient machine for spinning cotton in the United 

States!

 Samuel Slater put his cool new machine in another one of his 

inventions new to the U.S., the water powered textile mill. This was 

the very first factory in America, and it made cloth easier to make. 

His hard work and determination led to machines that 

revolutionized the way that both cotton thread and cloth were 

made. Samuel Slater, the "Father of the Factory System", helped 

the U.S. jump into the Industrial Revolution!

Eli Whitney was told that if someone could come up with a machine 

to separate short staple cotton from the seed, poverty in the 

South would be fixed. He worked for 10 days straight and came up 

with the Cotton Gin in 1793! Eli's machine allowed more efficient 

cotton harvesting, which led to a spread of slavery in the South 

and   a greater dependency on the plantation system.

After his first great invention, Eli created interchangeable parts 

for muskets in 1798. This meant that if one part broke, you only 

had to replace that one part! Interchangeable parts led to the 

first mass production of goods, assembly line factories, and later 

gave the North the advantage of a big amount of muskets and 

weapons during the Civil War.

Half a century down the road, the effects of Eli Whitney's 

creations were shown during the Civil War. His creations 

inevitably helped lead to the separation of North and South.

Living in Illinois, John Deere saw that many farmers in 

the West had a big problem. They couldn't plow their 

farmland quickly because the soil was tough and their 

plows kept breaking. In 1837 he came up with a steel 

plow that could bust through the soil in no time! It was 

light enough that it could be pulled by horses too! 

John's new plow made farming development in the West 

a lot easier, allowed it to spread quicker and be more 

profitable.

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