Industrial Revolution Crossword Puzzle
QUESTIONS LIST: corn planter : farmers could plant corn by jabbing the metal tip of this planter into the ground. activating the lever would drop the seeds into the hole, water frame : huge waterwheels installed at the mill, driven by the river, provided the rotary motion to drive the machinery, cotton gin : cotton was run through a wooden drum embedded with a series of hooks that caught the fibers and dragged them through a mesh, steam engine : hot steam from boiling water to drive a piston (or pistons) back and forth, samuel morse : designed/invented the telegraph, isaac singer : designed/invented the commercial sewing machine, robert fulton : designed/invented the steamship, mechanical reaper : combined all the steps that earlier harvesting machines had performed separately, thomas moore : designed/created the first icebox, tom thumb : the first american-built steam locomotive to operate on a common-carrier railroad, thomas edison : designed/invented the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera, elijah mccoy : designed/invented the automatic lubricating device, steel plow : a way to improve the process of farming, increase productivity, and expand usable land for farmers, walter hunt : designed/invented the safety pin.