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A New Industrial Revolution. What conditions spurred the growth of industry?. Factors Leading to the Industrial Boom. Factors Leading to the Industrial Boom. Inventions that helped industry, transportation, and businesses grow.
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A New Industrial Revolution What conditions spurred the growth of industry?
Inventions that helped industry, transportation, and businesses grow *FYI:Patents were government documents that gave an inventor the right to make and sell an invention.
Bessemer Process • Allowed people to make stronger steel at a lower cost • Steel replaced iron as the basic building material of industry.
Oil Refining Methods • Crude oil refined into lubricants for machines and later gasoline for fuel powered engines and automobiles.
Electrical Power Plant • New York City opened the first one in 1882 supplying electricity for lights, street cars, and safer electric engines. Thomas Edison
Telegraph • Helped businesses and families communicate.
Underwater Telegraph • Sped up communications with Europe.
Telephone • Invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. • Helped businesses communicate, buy, and sell. Alex Graham Bell
Typewriter • Made office work faster and cheaper than handwriting.
Automobile • Americans relied less on railroads for transportation. The Model T
Assembly Line • Introduced by Henry Ford in 1913 to mass produce the automobile cheaper and faster.
Gas Powered Airplane • Invented by Wilbur & Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, NC in 1903. • Later used by the military in World War I.
The Assembly Line • Jobs • Painter: body and doors (aka color them) • Body and door cutter • Window cutter • Tire cutter • Door and window assembly • Tire assembly
The Assembly Line • Which made more cars? The assembly line or people working on their own? • What were the jobs like on the assembly line? • How could working on the assembly line be stressful?