Civil War Tech
Dec 28, 2015
Time Line 1790 1800 1810 1820 1830
Technology Slater’s Mill Steamship Portland cement Steam Locomotive
Cotton Gin Gaslight Blast Furnace Telegraph
Steel pen Plate glass
Sociology Abolition Society Luddites Lowell MS Augusta GA Canal
Slave Population 700K 900K 1.2M 1.6M 2M
Cotton Production 140K #s 500K 900K 1.8M
Political Constitution Lewis/Clark African Slave AL enters Union Nullification S Slave Trade Act Trade Act Tariff of 1824
War of 1812 Tariff of 1828
Other Inventions
Spencer Microscope
Anesthesia
Electric Motor
Steel making Process
Clinical Thermometer
Dynamite – 1867
Ether