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Chapter 6-A New Industrial Age Section 1-The Expansion of Industry

Chapter 6-A New Industrial Age Section 1-The Expansion of Industry. By: Dirk Johnston Group Members: Jordan Voge, Weston Peters, and Nic Klein. Vocabulary In section. Entrepreneur -A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture.

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Chapter 6-A New Industrial Age Section 1-The Expansion of Industry

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  1. Chapter 6-A New Industrial AgeSection 1-The Expansion of Industry By: Dirk Johnston Group Members: Jordan Voge, Weston Peters, and Nic Klein

  2. Vocabulary In section • Entrepreneur-A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture. • Incandescent-Giving off visible light as a result of being heated. • Bessemer Process-A efficient manufacturing process that injects air into molten iron to remove the carbon and other impurities. Used to make 90% of steel in 1880 in America until the Open-Hearth Process. • Iron-A dense metal that is soft and tends to break and rust. Was discovered by prospectors in the Mesabi Range of Minnesota in 1887. • Steel-A rust-Resistant metal that is made from removing carbon from iron making it lighter and more flexible.

  3. Industrial Revolution Boom in Late 1800s Main Factors: • A discovery in the wealth of natural resources-oil and coal and iron ore. • Government support for businesses • Growing Urban Population that provided cheap labor and markets for new products.

  4. Edwin L. Drake • Successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania, that removing oil from beneath the earth's surface became practical. Thus starting the oil boom in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Texas. Oil into kerosene. Gasoline was a by-product of making kerosene but wasn’t used until the automobile.

  5. Famous Inventors in the Late 1800s

  6. Henery Bessemer and William Kelly • Henery (British Manufacturer) and William (American Ironmaker) developed the Bessemer Process around 1850. Henery Bessemer William Kelly

  7. Joseph Glidden • Barbed wire in 1874 which was a modified version of  Lucien B. Smith's barbed wire he made in 1867.

  8. McCormick and Deere Farm Machinery McCormick

  9. William Le Baron • Skyscraper with steel frame (Home Insurance Building In Chicago).

  10. Thomas Alva Edison • Incandescent light bulb (made-1876 and patented-1880) and made a system for distributing electrical power. By 1890 many machines used electricity (fans to printing presses). • Electric streetcars in cities were transportation. Plants could be anywhere not just near sources of power like rivers.

  11. Addition to last slide George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison • Innovated electricity making it safer and cheaper.

  12. Christopher Sholes • Typewriter called the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer less than 5,000 were sold (1867).

  13. Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Augustus Watson • Alexander was only 29 when he and Thomas invented the Telephone (1876). He later founded the Bell  Telephone Company in 1877.

  14. Other Facts • In 1910  women accounted for about 40% of the clerical (office) work force because of the typewriter and telephone. • 1890 the average workweek hours had been decreased by about 10 hours.

  15. Bibliography • The Americans Reconstruction to the 21st Century by Danzer  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbed_wire • http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/firsttw.html • http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltelephone2.htm • http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/637636/Thomas-Augustus-Wa...

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