Inventions Essay

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Inventions may not be appreciated so much, but they are the small things that have changed our world, our country, and our lives. Even the smallest inventions make a dent in our quotidian life. Some inventions make our life easier, others give us more ways to do the things we love. Although they might change our lives greatly today they had a huge role in the lives of people hundreds of years ago. They helped plantation owners whip harder, they helped slaves make more cotton, and they helped things get bigger and better. There is so much to learn about inventions in the 1800s, so many inventors with different pasts and brighter futures. Inventions were the key component to fit the pieces of our country together. They made us be proud to be americans for so many different reasons. Inventions have changed our world, inventions have changed us.

In 1821 Michael Faraday invented the Faraday Motor. Few inventions have shaped technology like the motor has. Michael Faraday was an English Scientist who worked in the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. Faraday received very little education yet he is still one of the most affluential scientists of our time. Faraday was born in Newington Butts, now part of the London Borough of Southwark. He was born on September 22, 1791. He had a rough childhood, moving from Westmoreland to London in the winter of 1790. There, at the age of 14, Michael worked as a local bookbinder and took interest in chemistry and physics. After hearing a lecture by the chemist Humphry Davy, he decided to send Davy the notes he took of the lecture. As a result, at the age of 21, Faraday was designated assistant to Davey at the Royal Institution. In his days of work Faraday usually involved himself in che...

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...lings, Josiah, Ben, and Elizabeth. He had a rough childhood, his mother passed away when he was 12. He was then expected to take on more responsibilities. He was very smart, he could take apart a watch and reassemble it at age 8. Whitney didn't have enough money to pay for college so he worked at a school for $7.00 a month. He then attended Yale University at age 23 and graduated he was 27. After he graduated he went to learn law and teach and stayed with General Nathanael Greene' s widow. She suggested that he make a machine that cleaned cotton. He made the cotton gin by spring of 1793. It was capable of cleaning cotton as fast as 50 men. The cotton gin was made up of a wooden roller and rows of small spines. They passed through the bars of a metal grid. The growth of cotton affected growth of slavery and made slavery a national institution.

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