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Explore the key inventions and innovations that fueled the expansion of industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the development of steel, drilling for oil, and the mass production of goods. Learn about notable figures like Edison, Westinghouse, Ford, Sholes, and Bell, and their contributions to technological progress.
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Day 33 Expansion of Industry • Homework: 230-233
Natural Resources • Black Gold- Edwin Drake process for drilling oil • (Henry) Bessemer Process= Steel- air, iron and coal • Fuel to the Railroad Industry – Food production
Inventions • Edison and Westinghouse- practical light bulb and safe electricity • Christopher Sholes-Typewriter • Alexander Graham Bell- telephone
Mass Production • Henry Ford develops the Model T on assembly line in 1914 price drops from $845-$290. • 93 minutes to make a car
Summary Questions • Who invented… • The typewriter • The Phone • Electric Generator • Efficient Technique for changing iron to steel • Process for retrieving oil • Incandescent Light Bulb
Reading • Winslow Homer • The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County (page 224) • The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (page 225) • Chief Satanta’s Speech at the medicine lodge creek council (page 225) • Regulation at a Lowell Boarding House • Adventure of a Black Cowboy