Progressive Technologies

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Electricity

• Widespread use of electrical power meant that
  factories could operate around the clock,
  producing huge numbers of cheap consumer goods
• It also meant that new electric appliances, such
  as vacuum cleaners and dishwashers, were in
  demand for use in wealthier homes

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Refrigeration

• Electricity also ushered in the age of
  refrigeration
• Allowed food to be preserved longer
• Fewer diseases from consuming spoiled food (esp.
  meat)

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Henry Ford

• 1863 1947
• Originally worked for Thomas Edison, but left
  after Edison dismissed automobiles as a fad
• Built his first car in 1896
• Founded Ford Motor Company in 1903
• Sold over 15,000,000 Model Ts between 1908 and
  1927

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Fords Model T

• "I will build a car for the great multitude. It
  will be large enough for the family, but small
  enough for the individual to run and care for. It
  will be constructed of the best materials, by the
  best men to be hired, after the simplest designs
  that modern engineering can devise. But it will
  be so low in price that no man making a good
  salary will be unable to own oneand enjoy with
  his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in
  God's great open spaces."------------------------H
  enry Ford

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Assembly Lines

• Ford trained each worker to do one specific job
  this led to greater efficiency
• Cars moved down the line from worker to worker
  having individual parts added along the way
• This led to faster production and greater
  production volume, thus lowering the cost of Fords

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5 per day wage

• Ford also saw his workers as potential customers,
  wanted them to be able to buy cars themselves
• Offered the unheard of pay of 5 per day (as a
  minimum wage some workers made more!), forcing
  wages to rise across US

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Wilbur Wright

• 1867 1912
• Ohio bicycle mechanic
• Developed a series of gliders over the period of
  1899-1902
• Finally built first successful airplane in 1903
  Kitty Hawk NC
• Died of typhoid fever

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Orville Wright

• 1871 1948
• Ohio bicycle mechanic
• Developed a series of gliders over the period of
  1899-1902
• Finally built first successful airplane in 1903
• Died of heart attack

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Charles Lindbergh

• 1902 1974
• Rose to fame by becoming the first man to fly a
  non-stop solo trip across the Atlantic Ocean in
  1927 in his plane Spirit of St. Louis
• In many ways, he demonstrated the commercial
  practicality of the airplane

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Airlines

• First commercial air travel in the US began in
  1914
• Didnt become profitable until the 1920s when
  Ford began producing it Tri-Motor aircraft that
  could carry 12 passengers

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Movies

• First movie was the 12-minute 1903 Edison film
  The Great Train Robbery
• Quickly became one of Americas favorite forms of
  cheap entertainment
• First hit movie was the 1915 film Birth of a
  Nation which earned over 10 million despite
  being over 3 hours long and portraying the KKK as
  heroes

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Movie Theaters

• First purpose-built movie theater opened in New
  Orleans in 1896 seated about 90 people and
  showed travel films
• Movie theaters quickly became a must for any
  town thousands had opened by 1920s

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Radio

• After 1913, technology allowed long-range radio
  transmissions
• 1926 National Broadcasting Company (NBC) formed
• 1928 Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) formed
• Radio programs became a staple of household
  entertainment by 1929, 10 million radios were in
  use in the US

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Ragtime Music

• Music that reflected the hectic pace of city life
• Scott Joplin (1867 1917) became known as the
  King of Ragtime

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Mass Culture

• US cultural trends became national rather than
  local what was fashionable in dress, music,
  food, books, etc. was now more consistent across
  the country

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Consumer Goods

• Now available
• Electric razors
• Disposable tissues
• Frozen foods
• Hair dye
• Washing machines
• Gas stoves
• Deodorant
• mouthwash

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Coca-Cola

• Introduced in 1886 as a patent medicine
• Name came from its two primary ingredients
• cocaine (from the coca plant) and
• caffeine (from the kola nut)
• cocaine dropped after 1903

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Kodak Cameras

• George Eastman introduced the first camera for
  amateur use in 1885 and expanded the market in
  1900 with the introduction of the Brownie box
  camera
• The key element was the development of cheap film
  to capture photographic images rather than the
  heavy, expensive glass plates that cameras had
  used