Chapter 6-A New Industrial Age Section 1-The Expansion of Industry

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Chapter 6-A New Industrial AgeSection 1-The
Expansion of Industry

• By Dirk Johnston
• Group Members Jordan Voge, Weston Peters, and
  Nic Klein

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Vocabulary In section

• Entrepreneur-A person who organizes, operates,
  and assumes the risk for a business venture.
• Incandescent-Giving off visible light as a result
  of being heated.
• Bessemer Process-A efficient manufacturing
  process that injects air into molten iron to
  remove the carbon and other impurities. Used to
  make 90 of steel in 1880 in America until the
  Open-Hearth Process.
• Iron-A dense metal that is soft and tends to
  break and rust. Was discovered by prospectors in
  the Mesabi Range of Minnesota in 1887.
• Steel-A rust-Resistant metal that is made from
  removing carbon from iron making it lighter and
  more flexible.

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Industrial Revolution Boom in Late 1800s

• Main Factors
• A discovery in the wealth of natural
  resources-oil and coal and iron ore.
• Government support for businesses
• Growing Urban Population that provided cheap
  labor and markets for new products.

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Edwin L. Drake

• Successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil
  near Titusville, Pennsylvania, that removing oil
  from beneath the earth's surface became
  practical. Thus starting the oil boom in
  Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana,
  and Texas. Oil into kerosene. Gasoline was a
  by-product of making kerosene but wasnt used
  until the automobile.

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Famous Inventors in the Late 1800s
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Henery Bessemer and William Kelly
Henery Bessemer
William Kelly

• Henery (British Manufacturer) and William
  (American Ironmaker) developed the Bessemer
  Process around 1850.

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Joseph Glidden

• Barbed wire in 1874 which was a modified version
  of  Lucien B. Smith's barbed wire he made in 1867.

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McCormick and Deere
McCormick

• Farm Machinery

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William Le Baron

• Skyscraper with steel frame (Home Insurance
  Building In Chicago).

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Thomas Alva Edison

• Incandescent light bulb (made-1876 and
  patented-1880) and made a system for distributing
  electrical power. By 1890 many machines used
  electricity (fans to printing presses).
• Electric streetcars in cities were
  transportation. Plants could be anywhere not just
  near sources of power like rivers.

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Addition to last slide George Westinghouse and
Thomas Edison

• Innovated electricity making it safer and cheaper.

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Christopher Sholes

• Typewriter called the Sholes Glidden Type
  Writer less than 5,000 were sold (1867).

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Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Augustus Watson

• Alexander was only 29 when he and Thomas invented
  the Telephone (1876). He later founded the Bell 
  Telephone Company in 1877.

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Other Facts

• In 1910  women accounted for about 40 of the
  clerical (office) work force because of the
  typewriter and telephone.
• 1890 the average workweek hours had
  been decreased by about 10 hours.

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Bibliography

• The Americans Reconstruction to the 21st Century
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