Transcript Britain Leads the Way - Mccook Elementary School

The Industrial Revolution Spreads
Chapter 9 Section 1
#1a Bessemer Process
• Created a process to purify iron ore and
turn it into STEEL
#1b Alfred Nobel
• Swedish chemist who
invented dynamite
#1c Michael Faraday
• English chemist created first
simple electric motor DYNAMO
#1d Thomas Edison
• American inventor created the light
bulb
#1e Henry Ford
• American
manufacturer who first
used the assembly line
to make cars
#1f Orville and Wilbur Wright
• American bicycle makers
designed and flew first
airplane at Kitty hawk,
North Carolina.
#1g Guglielmo Marconi
• Italian inventor created the first
radio, transmitted Morse code
from Great Britain to Canada in
1901
#1h Alfred Krupp
• German businessman who
created a monopoly in steel
making industry
#2a Dyanmo
• A machine
that
generates
electricity
#2b interchangeable Parts
• Identical components that could be used
in place of one another
#2c Assembly Line
• Workers add parts to a product that moves
along a belt
#2d Stock
• Shares in a company each stockholder in
essence becomes part owner
#2e Corporation
• businesses that are owned by many
investors who buy shares
#2f Cartel
• A group of large corporations associated
to fix prices, set production quotas, or
• control markets [OPEC]
#3 How did the Industrial
Revolution spread in the 1800s?
• A British mechanic opened a factory in
Belgium in 1807. Other European
countries, as well as the United States and
Japan, eventually learned British
technology and created their own
inventions
#4 How did technology help
industry expand?
• Scientists developed new products and
technologies. Their achievements included
a process fro producing steel, the
development of dynamite, and the creation
of the dynamo for generating electricity.
#5 How did the need for capital
lead to new business methods?
• To raise needed capital, large companies
became corporations and sold shares of
the business to investors.