Chapter 10: Innovations and Inventions

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Across
  1. 2. New York governor who promoted the construction of the Erie Canal
  2. 7. became the commercial center of the nation in the 1800s
  3. 8. steamboat pilot and author; better known as Mark Twain
  4. 12. underwater telegraph cable connecting Newfoundland and Ireland
  5. 15. fastest mail service available before the telegraph
  6. 16. invented the telegraph and developed Morse code
  7. 17. most significant development of the transportation revolution; brought speed, efficiency, and ease of transportation that waterways could not provide
  8. 18. used nitrous oxide to ease the pain of dental work
  9. 19. improved the power loom and built textile factories in New England
  10. 20. developed the reaping machine
Down
  1. 1. one who risks personal loss to develop and market new products or ideas
  2. 3. major commercial center of the nation in the 1800s
  3. 4. conducted electrical currents over wires in a series of cided messages
  4. 5. ships narrow-hulled vessels that dramatically cut travel time
  5. 6. linked the hudson river with lake erie
  6. 9. first woman physician
  7. 10. legal rights to inventions
  8. 11. made plowing of prairie grass easier
  9. 13. major means of transportation for cotton crops from the plantations of the South to the port of New Orleans
  10. 14. invented the steel plow
  11. 15. machine used to weave cloth