The Triumph of Industry

1. The Triumph of Industry Technology and Industrial Growth

2. Natural Resources • The country’s growth was fueled by our many natural resources. • Coal mines powered trains, forests were cut for lumber, rivers were used to transports goods, and in 1859 Edwin Drake drilled first oil well.

3. NEW INDUSTRIES • Railroad • Marketing • Sewing Machine • Vacuums • Typewriters • Automobile • Salt • Coal • Agricultural • Oil • Mining • Sugar • Steel • Meatpacking • Beef/Cattle • Construction • Telegraph • Telephone

6. NEW SOUTH

7. Growing Workforce • Many immigrants came to the U.S. after the Civil War. (Asians and Europeans) • Push Factors- Things that push people out of their country to go somewhere else. (Religious discrimination, political war, crop failures) • Pull Factors- Things that are appealing for someone who is looking for a place of refuge from their current living place. (Economic opportunity, freedom of religion, political stability)

8. Immigrants were willing to work for low wages because the competition was great and they wanted economic opportunities that they did not have in their home countries. • By 1905, 1 million immigrants have come to America to live.

9. Immigrants from Europe • Immigrants provided the labor force for industrial expansion of the US. • They also became the customers who in return bought the items produced. Old New New New

10. Chart: Rise of Immigrants IMMIGRATION 1,593,000 181,1880 2,753,00 926,000 1,110,000 1,847,000 1,069,000 5,780,000 540,000 2,928,000 Old = England and Germany New = Southern Europe: Italy, Russia, Poland

11. Capitalism and Entrepreneurs • Capitalism- Free Enterprise, where individuals own most businesses. • Entrepreneurs- People who invest money in a product or enterprise to make a profit. • The industry these people made created more jobs and also attracted foreign investment.

12. Government Policies Encourage Free Enterprise • Government policies encouraged the success of business in the late 1800s. • Ex: The government would give railroad companies millions of acres of land in return for their promise to quickly link the East and West Coast.

13. Protective Tariffs Taxes that make imported goods cost more than those products that are made locally. Laissez-faire Policy that allows businesses to operate under minimal government regulation. “Hands off, Leave business alone” Government Policies Encourage Free Enterprise

14. Electricity Transforms Life • Patent- Grant by the federal government giving the inventor the right to develop, use, and sell an innovation for a set period of time. • Thomas Edison- Supported by J.P. Morgan. Received more than 1,000 patents for new innovations such as the light bulb. • He later developed plans for a central power plant for cities. • George Westinghouse- developed technology to send electricity over long distances.

15. Improving Communications • Samuel Morse- Telegraph technology or sending messages over wire. • Alexander Graham Bell- Telephone • By 1900 there were more than 1 million telephones across the country • Guglielmo Marconi- wireless telegraph leading to later the development of the radio

16. Thomas Alva Edison “Wizard of Menlo Park”

17. “Wizard of Menlo Park” • Edison Inventions helped to shape modern society • More than 1,000 inventions patented • Light bulb • Phonograph • Incandescent electric lamp • Starter for automobiles that eliminated hand crank • Batteries • Perfected stock ticker • New York City first city to powered by electricity • The motion picture camera and projector • First used “hello” as phone greeting • Helped Alexander G. Bell with the telephone

18. The Light Bulb

19. The Phonograph (1877)

20. The Ediphone or Dictaphone

21. The Motion Picture Camera

22. Alexander Graham Bell Telephone (1876)

23. KEY INVENTIONS • BETWEEN 1860 TO 1900 • Elevator---1852 • Bessemer Process---1852 • Sewing Machine---1853 • Dynamite---1867 • Typewriter---1868 • Levi Blue Jeans/Basketball---1873 • Telephone---1876 • Phonograph---1878 • Light bulb and cash register---1879 • Zipper---1883 • Gasoline automobile and skyscraper---1885 • New York City---first city to have electricity--1890 • Radio---1895 • Subway---1897 • X-ray---1900 Between 1800 to 1900, US Govt. issued 500,000 patents

24. Steel • Henry Bessemer- Developed process for purifying iron, resulting in steel. Bessemer Process • By 1890 the U.S. was outproducing Britain. • Steel allowed for the production of skyscrapers, elevators, and suspension bridges. • 1st suspension bridge was the Brooklyn Bridge. In 1883 it was the longest bridge in the world.

25. BESSEMER PROCESS • In 1856 Henry Bessemer devised a way of converting iron into steel on a large scale. • His invention involved blowing air through molten iron in a converter, or furnace, in order to burn off the excess carbon. • His invention revolutionized the Industrial Age. • New Uses for Steel • Steel used in railroads, barbed wire, farm machines • Changes construction: Brooklyn Bridge; steel-framed skyscrapers

26. With the Bessemer Process and Carnegie steel, Skyscrapers revolutionized the building industry….. • Major city skylines would be dotted with this new type of building as the 1900’s begin.

27. George Westinghouse Air brakes for trains Granville Woods Telegraph system for trains. Gustavus Swift refrigerated cars for transporting food. 1884- world divided in to 24 different time zones. Electric streetcars, commuter trains, and subways started to appear in major cities. 1903- Wright brothers flew first airplane. Americans could now commute to work and not have to live in the city. Technology and Transportation

28. Pullman Cars RAILROAD INDUSTRY • What helped the railroad industry prosper? • Bessemer Process • Westinghouse Air Brakes • Steel Rails • Standard Gauge

29. A Growing Nation • Railroads transformed industries because they could transport large amounts of goods quickly, cheaply, and efficiently. They also linked every part of the nation. • Railroads stimulated growth in other industries. • Mass Production- making large quantities of goods quickly and inexpensively.

30. Linking World Markets • By the 1880s the U.S. had as many miles of railroads as the whole rest of the world combined. • Goods could easily be made and then transported to ports where they could be shipped all around the world. • The export of food and goods greatly expanded the American economy.

31. Changing American Society • Farmers became mechanized, meaning fewer workers were needed to do the work that machines were now doing. • Out of work farmers were moving to cities. • Mass production meant that clothing and supplies were more affordable. • Higher costs of living, low wages and repetitive work in factories affected how the citizens lived.

32. Environment • Not much thought had gone on about preserving the environment. • Mining was destroying land, agricultural production lead to erosion and dust storms. • Concern about the environment would lead to agencies to protect the land. • Yellowstone Park in 1872 was one of the first federal responses to the concerns about the environment.