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Is a document giving someone the sole right to make
and sell inventions.
Invented the light bulb, motion picture camera, and
many other useful devices.
Invented the telephone.
Made the automobile available to millions of people.
Is a manufacturing method in which a products is put
together as it moves along a belt.
Tested a gas powered airplane at Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina.
Westward expansion of the
nation, which gave citizens
and immigrants industrial
growth. There were large
deposits of coal, iron, lead,
and copper, which is now all
within reach of the miners.
The forest allowed people to
build houses and other
buildings. Congress gave
railroad and other businesses
land grants and subsidies.
Tariffs made foreign goods
more costly which helped the
American industry.
Technology was another thing
that helped industry growth.
Inventers discovered the
Bessemer process which makes
stronger steel at lower prices in
the 1850’s. Steel quickly replaced
iron as the basic building material.
Pittsburgh became the nations
leading steel-making capital. A
new source of energy, in 1859,
was discovered near Titusville,
Pennsylvania. It was the first oil
strike in the nation. They gave oil
the name “black gold” because it
was so valuable.
People and goods were carried
by trains to the west and raw
materials to eastern factories.
Big railroad companies bought
out smaller railroad companies
or forced them out of business.
The Pennsylvania Railroad was
combined with 73 other
smaller railroad companies.
High rates made farmers join
the Granger and Populist
movements.
Thomas Edison invented one
of the most important things
in all of the worlds history,
the light bulb. He did this in
1879. He set up a research
lab in Menlo Park, New
Jersey. Thomas Edison and
some other scientist
produced the light bulb, the
phonograph, thee motion
picture camera, and
hundreds of other useful
devices. The nation’s first
electrical power plant was
opened by Edison in New
York City, in 182.
The telegraph has been in use
since 1844. In 1866, Cyrus Field
had an under water telegraph
cable laid across the Atlantic
Ocean which sped up the
communications with Europe.
Finally in 1876, Andrew Graham
Bell sent the first telegram
message to his assistant in
another room “Mr. Watson, come
here. I want you.” Bell’s patent for
the telephone was the most
valuable patent ever issued. More
than 300,000 phones had been
sold by the year of 1885.
A better writing device, called the “Type-Writer”, was
invented by Christopher Sholes in 1868. Funeral typist
could type 60 words per minute. The camera affected
more people than businesses. The lightweight camera
was invented in 1888 by George Eastman. African
Americans played an important role in the flood of
inventions. Jan Matzeliger made a machine that
sewed the tops to the soles of shoes. Granville Woods
made a way to send telegraph messages between
moving trains.
• People had to travel by foot or by horses
for many years.
• In the late 1800’s the automobile was
invented by European engineers.
• About 8000 Americans owned
automobile in 1900.
• Henry Ford made automobile cheaper
for millions of Americans.
• In 1913 Ford introduced the assembly
line.
• The assembly line cut production time in
half which made cars cheaper.
• More than 4.5 million Americans owned
cars by 1917.
• The nation’s landscape was changed by
cars.
• Wilbur and Orville Wright tested a
gas powered airplane at Kitty
Hawk, North Carolina.
• On the first attempt, the plane
stayed in the air for 12 seconds and
flew 120 feet.
• Orville attempted four flights that
day.
• His longest flight lasted 59 seconds.
• The first flights didn’t really attract
very much attention.
• No one saw any practical use for a
flying machine until World War I.
• The airplane had begun to change
the world by making travel and
trade easier by the 1920’s.
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