A New Industrial

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A New Industrial Revolution
Chapter 18 section 1
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Essential Question

• Industrialization increased the standard of
  living and the opportunities of most Americans,
  but at what cost?

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Causes of Rapid Industrialization

• 1. Steam Revolution of the 1830s-1850s.
• 2. The Railroad fueled the growing US economy
• First big business in the US.
• A magnet for financial investment.
• The key to opening the West.
• Aided the development of other industries.
• 3. Government policy favored industrial growth
• subsidies to railroads
• Kept high tariffs on imports encouraging
  Americans buy American goods

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Causes of Rapid Industrialization

• 4. Technological innovations.
• 1850s Bessemer process made steel stronger and
  cheaper
• Refrigerated cars
• Edison
• Known as the Wizard of Menlo Park
• light bulb, phonograph, motion pictures.

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Causes of Rapid Industrialization
5. Unskilled semi-skilled labor in
abundance. 6. Abundant capital. 7. New,
talented group of businessmen entrepreneurs and
advisors. 8. Market growing as US population
increased. 9. Abundant natural resources.
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U. S. Patents Granted
1790s ? 276 patents issued.
1990s ? 1,119,220 patents issued. A patent is
document giving someone the sole right to make
and sell an invention
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Thomas Alva Edison

• Wizard of Menlo Park

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The Light Bulb
The nations first electrical power plant in New
York City
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The Phonograph (1877)
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The Ediphone or Dictaphone
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The Motion Picture Camera
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Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone (1876) Most valuable patent ever issued
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Alternate Current
George Westinghouse
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Alternate Current
Westinghouse Lamp ad
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Devices for home and Office

• 1868 Christopher Sholes invented a letter writing
  device called the Type-Writer
• Office workers could now crank out letters at a
  much faster rate than before.

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George Eastman

• The Kodak camera was invented in 1888 making it
  possible for everyone to be able to afford to
  take their own pictures

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Model T Automobile

• Did not make the first automobile!
• Did make it more affordable to the masses with
  the introduction of the assembly line in 1913!
• The assemble line changed everything
• From 14 hours to produce 1 car,
• to one car every 1 ½ hours!

Henry FordI want to pay my workers so that they
can afford my product!
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The Reorganization of Work
The Assembly Line
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Model T Prices Sales
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The Airplane

• Tested a gas powered plane
• First flight stayed in the air for 12 seconds
• Four flights made that day, one for 59 seconds

Wilbur Wright Orville Wright

• Nobody really cared until WWI when militaries
  began to use it

Kitty Hawk, NC December 7, 1903