The timeline of inventions includes:

• 1765 James Watt modifies the existing Newcomen steam engine to create a more efficient machine.
• 1793 Eli Whitney’s cotton gin efficiently and quickly separates harvested cotton fiber from seeds. The process makes cotton manufacturing easier, and cotton farming profitable.
• 1807 The Clermont, Robert Fulton’s river steamboat, makes its maiden voyage on the Hudson River.
• 1813 Francis Lowell and Paul Moody create the first power loom in America, based on an English design.
• 1829 Stephenson’s Rocket, an early steam locomotive, wins a competition for locomotive speed in England.