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Innovations That Shaped Society: Thomas Edison & Other Pioneers of Progress

Explore the profound impact of 19th-century inventions, including the light bulb, telephone, and assembly line, on daily life. Learn about Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, and more trailblazers who revolutionized technology and communication.

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Innovations That Shaped Society: Thomas Edison & Other Pioneers of Progress

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  1. Ch. 26 Sec. 4Nineteenth Century Progress The Effects of the Industrial Revolution

  2. Progress Changes Ways of Life

  3. Thomas Edison:the Inventor • Thomas A. Edison • America’s greatest inventor • 1,000 inventions • Invented the Phonograph

  4. Edison the Inventor • *Thomas Edison is famous for inventing the light bulb.

  5. Edison the Inventor Vote Recorder 1868Printing Telegraph 1869Stock Ticker 1869Telegraph Transmitter 1870 (picture only)Telegraphic Recorder 1871Typewriter 1871Automatic Telegraph 1872Galvanic Storage Batteries 1872Duplex Telegraphs 1873Quadruplex Telegraph Repeater 1875Telephonic Telegraphs 1876Acoustic Telegraphs 1876Pneumatic Stencil Pens 1877Perforating Pens 1877Phonograph or Speaking Machine 1877Carbon Button Microphone 1878Typewriter 1878Dynamo 1879Incandescent Electric Lamp 1879Magnetic Ore Separator 1880Process for Preserving Fruit 1880Electric Meter 1881Electric Motor 1881Dynamo Current regulator 1881Underground Electric Conductors 1882Telephone Repeater 1884Fuse Block 1885Thermo Electric Battery 1888Phonograph Recorder 1888Phonograph reproducer 1888Kinetograph and Projecting Kinetoscope 1897Reversible Galvanic Battery 1900 Some of Edison’s Other Inventions!

  6. Edison

  7. Alexander Graham Bell Revolutionize Communication • Bell • *Invented the telephone • Used electricity to transmit sound.

  8. Ford Sparks the Automobile Industry • Henry Ford • Wanted to make cars affordable for most people. • “The way to make automobiles is to make them all alike.” • *Ford began to build cars using a process called an ASSEMBLY LINE.

  9. Henry Ford Model T Assembly Line

  10. Assembly Line

  11. Division of Labor

  12. Wright Brothers • Wilbur and Orville Wright • Flew for the first time a gasoline powered flying machine.

  13. Louis Pasteur • *Louis Pasteur • Developed the germ theory of disease. • Bacteria • *Pasteurization – Process to kill germs in liquids by heating them. • Cleanliness also important in the prevention of the spread of germs.

  14. Darwin’s Theory of Evolution • Charles Darwin • Theory of Evolution • Darwin theorized that all forms of life, including human beings, evolved from earlier living forms that previously existed. • 1859, Published “The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.”

  15. Marie Curie • Marie Curie • *Discovered and Investigated the energy known today as RADIOACTIVITY. • Radium • Polonium • 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics • 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

  16. *Albert Einstein • Scientific Genius • 1905 Developed Theory of Relativity • *E = MC 2 • 1921 Won Nobel Prize in Physics

  17. Albert Einstein and Theory of Relativity

  18. INVENTOR Matching Draw a line from the inventor to the thing they invented! These are ALL on the test!!!

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