INVENTIONS IN AMERICA’S GROWTH (1750-1850) - FRANKLIN STOVE SPINNING MACHINE COTTON GIN PH24854

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website Discusses, through the recollections of an old settler, the contributions of inventions to the growth of America prior to 1850. Shows the use made of such inventions as the Franklin stove, Sam Slater’s spinning machine, Eli Whitney’s cotton gin, James Watt’s steam engine, Robert Fulton’s steamboat, DeWitt Clinton’s locomotive, and Cyrus McCormick’s reaper. Includes views of reconstructions of early machines, and of originals which have been preserved in museums. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest h