18th Century

From the beginning of time of the United States, man has always dealt with serious issues dealing with daily life struggles and lack of inefficiency for producing of certain items, leading to a better enlightenment of living and the beginning of the making of a nation made up of immigrants. Since the 18th century, the United States has funded dreams to come true for fleeing immigrants from socio-economic problems since the innovation of many brilliant inventors have come to play, to provide jobs for many at an easy cause effort. Many innovators such as Samuel F.B Morse, Eli Whitney, and James Watt who have engulfed the old agricultural world and modified it into a more industrial carefree environment for all in the United States making the
base foundation of the American Dream, which will later keep growing, for immigrants around the world to come be a part of.
Advancements of the modern world obviously have had to started long ago from the beginning of its origin.
Some struggles had to be overcome though, since is the beginning of something new and it's all based on an idea or theory. Before the 18th century, it was a very tough and squalid way of living where everything was done by hand and took almost years to accomplish small baby steps, since their wasn’t any new modern technology for easy and better accessible ways to cause easy and fast labor, communication, trade etc. The fundamental groundwork of the idea was there, but the ways planned to complete those accesses, wasted too much time of inefficient product making or producing, and was just nearly a hardworking era that wasted too much time for very little
advancements. Since the 18th century was known as the industrial revolution, it was a whole creation of improvements to the world and benefit the society. Starting with James Watt and his improvement on Newcomen’s Engine. Watt was a brilliant Scottish engineer and inventor from Greenland, Scotland. Remembered by many today for his contribution to society, the sad truth most people do not know is that, Watt was “ mostly credited for the invention of the steam engine, but he’s just recognized because he’s innovation did the most change in human ways as in living and work”(Outman). Newcomen, who was another innovator, had that idea locked down first and the creation of the engine as well, Watt just simply improved it in 1763 in the University of Glasgow, where he worked as an instrument maker. He was asked if he could repair a model of the steam engine and that's where Watts ideas started to flow as he familiarized himself with the machine. Watt saw some details that could be added in order to improve the invention. A major change Watt did was that the “condensation press should be separated from the piston cylinder”(Ferrell), and the combination of the steam cycle and condensation cycle that was put in a small cylinder to lack inefficiency. Watt introduced the idea of double-acting mechanism , which was the allowing of the engine to “drive forward and backwards piston strokes, doubling capacity of work”(Ferrell). Causing for the steam engine to be recognized as a big step forward to a better improvement of trade to be reached further to other territories were trade was simply not possible due to the rivers downstream, but now simply overcome. It also allowed time reduction for the goods to get to one place to another, since it would normally be a shipment from a horse pulling a carousel. Marking the first step in funding the making of the American Dream, since the availability to move around the US, would be faster and travel and trade could be done in a short amount of time.
During this time slavery was still in effect, where slaves spent several hours a day picking cotton for long periods of time, which would later be distributed and be sold as mass product goods, this is where the coming of the Cottin Gin takes place.
Invented by Eli Whitney, an ingenious inventor from Westborough, Massachusetts, where starting at a young age he would start using his hands for building whatever he could set his mind to. Since his father owned a workshop, he could basically build anything. Seeing for his own how a plantation worked and the work labor that most black put forth to come up with not a lot of product, Whitney was determined to find an alternative for faster production. Whitney being the skilled craftsman he was, he quickly came up with the first working Cotton Gin in 1793, which was a “revolving crank that caused a cylinder cover with wired teeth to revolve, the teeth pulled the cotton fiber, carrying it through slots in in the cylinder as it revolved. Slots were too small for seeds to go in”(Benson). Causing for almost the most production to increase in the cotton industry and have more trade with Textile companies, causing the sellers of cotton to make more money and slaves had to do less by hand and produce cotton quota needed without a lot of time used. Which although it would be a successful invention and a perfect money maker for the plantation owners, the slaves, although their job was easier to accomplish, they were the only race who didn't
quite get to enjoy the full benefits of a growing US, and were completely cut off for the making of the American Dream until later on.
One other important Whitney was also known for was his theory of interchangeable parts. Whitney had the theory that he could make 4,000 muskets for the US government with the use of interchangeable part, which he stated could be done quicker, Whitney quickly gathered, “unskilled workers to do only portions of the muskets and not the whole thing since another laborer would have an assembly step”(Benson). Taking him more than 10 years, Whitney successfully completed his theory and gave a huge boost to the world’s Industrialization era, “led to greatsaving cost, labor, and quality”(Benson). Whitney was known for the benefactor of time reduction for production making and a faster way to replace any machine part or utensil by just removing the damaged piece with new one instead of making a new order again. Providing the opening of many job positions for not only americans, but fleeing immigrants trying to get their economic status up from their previous struggling nations and since the openings were easy tasks anyone can do, education was not really required, causing money to basically be handed to incoming immigrants coming into the United States making them very happy and starting a minimal way of living that would eventually increase later on, building the American Dream even more.
Being able to have already mastered the steps of water transportation for further territorial trade within the US, and the reduction of labor due to the idea of interchangeable parts, led to one last major upgrade for the United States, Communication. Bringing in the creation of the telegraph by Samuel F.B. Morse. Known also as an American Inventor from Charlestown, Massachusetts, Morse was actually intrigued by the study of art and pursued that passion all the way to college where his parents had helped him pay all expenses, until money was short and couldn’t afford to be attending the art classes he was forced to return back home. While in return home from the European cruise, Morse was astonished by a conversation he heard from an english scientist, which he was “sharing his discoveries from an experiment that had to do with electromagnetics passing through the coil of a wire to attract objects”(Outman). That got Morse to start thinking of a wire were to be set from some certain point to another could the metal hold a message if possible due to electric current flow. Morse succeeded in 1835 by having the first working model done and it would completely be made out of an “old canvas stretcher, a homemade battery, and the works of a clock”(Outman). Morse’s goal was to have the a telegraph with less wiring, which he did accomplish due to the fact that he created Morse code, which was the sending of various clicking noises by using short and long electric pulses that would stimulate both letters or numbers to the destination. This was considered to be his first test, since it was only in New Jersey, but in 1843, Morse had pulled off the impossible when he decided to ask the government for money in order to test his telegraph from Baltimore, Maryland to Washington, D.C. It was a creation that would top all other inventions, by not only improving the ability to gain communication with other people around the world even out of the US, but it gave several uses to the other industrial revolution innovations like the railroad transportation industry to avoid any collision with other trains. The telegraph was closely associated more with manufacturers, financiers, and other businessmen, in order to find out the goods other places had and finding the better price between the certain places selling the item needed. It was a a very costly invention, but it was sure worth taking the risk, in order to create a miracle of communication throughout the world. The telegraph being the last puzzle piece for the beginning of the concept of the American Dream, because this caused easier findings around he U.S faster in minutes then what would take days for messengers to do and keeping in touch with other companies of the same enterprise in further places to have same production settings, productivity and more. Causing for labor to be a breeze and the calling of many immigrants to the desire the living that the new Industrial United States has taken
The world will keep moving up in the scale of improvement as the time goes on for the US, but during the 18th century, this marked the first footsteps of the beginning of something new, it was the first stepping stones that funded the American Dream, for what US is most entirely made up of right now a land of immigrants, who seek nothing more, but the satisfaction of living in a place were not only was transforming into a modern society and connecting the world together, but to forge a seal that would show immigrants from all over the world that they could come here and enjoy the benefits from these invention’s effects to the US and make a better living as in work labor and just opening new beginnings for many that would create and innovate what America will soon be known for to reach in the future of where we are now.