The railroad T-rail is something that turned the American civil war around. Robert Stevens born is New Jersey 1787 worked with his father to build steamships and he improved various steamships but he wanted to work on railroads. His father understood that he didn’t want to work on the steamships so he let him quit. In 1830 Stevens became president of the railroad company and then in 1831 he created the flanged T-rail. The T-rail was a railroad that helped people transport resources to cities and the battle field. During the American civil war the T-rails is what helped the north win the civil war because the north had more rails than the south.

The platform scale helped people measure things. Thaddeus Fairbanks, born in 1796, Massachusetts Built an iron foundry in 1923 and Erastus his brother came to work for Thaddeus, Thaddeus solved a problem that there were too large counterweights and then in 1830 he invented the platform scale. Platform scales measure heavy and large objects, they take advantage of the advantage offered by levers, and its functional with no cranes required.

The mechanical reaper is something that helped people get more food. Before the mechanical reaper people used to harvest crops by hand or by a sickle and then scythes. Cyrus McCormick born in 1809, Virginia had a plan to feed the world with a mechanical reaper and he took inspiration from the British version so he tried to patent a mechanical reaper and he succeeded. McCormick’s reaper was pulled by horses and it was like a carriage that had large blades that would cut the plants like a knife and would toss it off to the side.

The electromagnet. Joseph Henry born in New York 1797, became interested in science a 16 and he became a state engineer after college. He became a science professor in 1826 age 29. In 1831 he invented the multiple-coil magnet. The functions and Benefits of the multiple-coil magnet is that non-insulated wire shorts out when touching each other and Henry could squeeze the coils to close each other.