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9-16-13. Please put your homework in the box under the smart board. Get out your notebook and get ready to take notes. Quiz 9/18 EVERYTHING OFF YOUR DESK. Tell me what you know about the role of New Inventions and Technologies in the Growth of Industrialization.
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9-16-13 • Please put your homework in the box under the smart board. • Get out your notebook and get ready to take notes
Quiz 9/18EVERYTHING OFF YOUR DESK Tell me what you know about the role of New Inventions and Technologies in the Growth of Industrialization
13.2: New Inventions and Technologies (p. 164) Chapter 13: The Age of Innovation and Industry (p. 163)
Capitalism “willingness to risk money on new businesses”. • Everything is privately owned factories, equipment, etc. • In the late 1800’s, private people built railroads and factories, in hopes of getting rich!! • Example: Thomas Edison borrowed $150,000 to light up cities with electric lights ( an new risky idea). • Inventors protected their ideas with patents.
The telegraph and telephone • TELEGRAPH Signals • MORSE CODE • Telephone Voice
Transportation speeds up! • Car Europe U.S. A. • Airplane
Rock oil provides new fuel. • Edwin Drake oil Titusville, PA. (1859) • oil was cheap to get therefore cheap to buy
Quiz Wednesday over: • 2 pts per BIG Topic • Capitalism • Communication & Transportation • Rock Oil • Bessemer Process • Electricity • 1 point for ONE evidence to support BIG Topic AND its connection to growth of Industry.
The Bessemer process revolutionizes steelmaking • new process forcing air purify the steel made it stronger. • Stronger steel BIGGER/TALLER everything that was made from steel!!! • Pittsburgh became the steelmaking capital of the world. • First “skyscraper” was built in Chicago.
Electricity Lights up America!! • Thomas Edison light bulb generating station goal: light up Manhattan! • Demand G R E W more companies begin to pop up to meet those demands. • Impact of electricity: • Businesses stayed open longer. • Families could work and read at night. • New appliances were developed (refrig., toaster, etc.) • Those in the country (“rural”) had to wait decades to get elec. • The End! (of section 2!)
1. New ways to manage work. • Factories interchangeable parts more quantity!! • Specialized machinery no need for “skilled” workers!
Workers performed single task all day long. • Efficient, but B O R I N G!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! • Speed boosted productivity.
Book The Principles of Scientific Management most efficient way of running a factory. • Henry Ford read this book used assembly line to mass produce cars. One every 3 minutes!!!! Many workers felt as if they were a piece of machinery themselves.
Increased productivity had two results: • Goods were cheaper (positive). • Needed less workers (negative). Meet YOUR future!!!
New Ways to Finance and Organize Businesses. • The three factors of production: • 1. land • 2. labor • 3. capital any asset that can produce income. • Land was cheap, labor was plentiful, but capital was limited!
Owners “corporations” (definition) a company that’s recognized independently from its owners. (ex.: Perry Motorcars, LLC) • A corp. can now sell “stocks” in order to raise $$$ (capital). • Stocks are bought and sold by the public for $$$ 10 cents then (1969), $73.49 now!!
Owners also tried to get rid of competition by: • Monopolies Think about this: what’s the object of the playing the game Monopoly???
Laissez-faire • This French word means “hands off”. (example: Most motorcycle riders in Ohio are glad that the Ohio legislature is laissez-faire concerning the wearing of helmets.) • In the late 1800’s, we see that the government has decided to keep it’s “hands off” trying to control business.
Owners tried to drive out their competitors by: • (you have to know the difference between these two) • Horizontal integration: H I S
Vertical Integration: V I P
Trust: • Where one person holds the title of property/business for many owners of separate businesses/companies. ( in other words, you trustanother person to hold the title to your business ) The goal of the trust is the same as the monopoly, to drive others out of business.
In reality govt. WASN’T 100% “hands off”! • Gave lots of “free” land to RR’s. • Sold ‘natural resources’ cheaply to friends of politicians. • Small businessmen ask govt. to help curb trusts/monop’s. hard to compete against. • Govt. responded Sherman Antitrust Act outlawed trusts, monop’s, other forms of business that “restricted trade”.
Section 5: The Gilded Age • What is “gild”? Something that ‘looks’ like gold on the outside, but isn’t. So, think about this: this is a time where politics/life looks “golden”, but is really crappy!!
Many famous business owners started out as: • Entrepreneurs bold risk-takers who est. new businesses. • These men made millions but what about the avg. worker???? • See why this is called the “gilded age”? Entrepreneurs got really rich (gold), but those who worked for them got little (cheap metal).
Some wealthy business became philanthropists: • A person who gives away their money for worthy causes. • Carnegie est. Univ. of Chicago (a leading business school). • Vanderbilt est. Vanderbilt Univ. • Rockefeller built over 2,500 public libraries.
So…. The big question is: Were these wealthy industrialists robber barons (people who stole from the poor and lived a lordly life) or captains of industry (people who used their wealth to help those less fortunate) ???????