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Ch. 19-2 Notes Inventions . Mrs. Manley . New inventions improved transportation & communication networks--- essential for growth of industry! Inventions that improved communication: Telegraph invented by Samuel Morse; almost instant messages in Morse Code.
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Ch. 19-2 Notes Inventions Mrs. Manley
New inventions improved transportation & communication networks--- essential for growth of industry! • Inventions that improved communication: • Telegraph invented by Samuel Morse; almost instant messages in Morse Code. • Transatlantic telegraph invented by Cyrus Field linked the US and Europe via telegraphs
Telegraph is improved upon with telephone; transmits speech not just code • Invented by Alexander Graham Bell; “Mr. Watson, come here! I want you!”It was an accident! But WOW!
Other inventions that improve businesses • Typewriter- Christopher Sholes • Adding Machine- William Burroughs • The Kodak Small box camera- George Eastman • Vacuum cleaner- John Thurman
Thomas Edison • Edison’s workshop was in Menlo Park, New Jersey. “Wizard of Menlo Park” • Inventions: • Phonograph (music) • Motion picture projector (video) • Telephone transmitter • Storage battery • Electric light bulb • Power plants
Other Inventors • George Westinghouse- improved on Edison’s work and developed transformers to send electricity over distances • Leads to powered factories, trolleys, streetlights, lights in homes • African American Inventors: • Lewis Howard Latimer- lightbulb filament • Granville Woods- electromagnetic brake, circuit breaker • Elijiah McCoy- oiling mechanism • Jan Matzeliger- shoe-making machine
Improvements to transportation: • Henry Ford- wanted to make an affordable car • Model T- was described as “a car that anyone could afford to buy, which anyone could drive anywhere, and which almost anyone could keep in repair.” • Assembly line- pioneered by Ford; less expensive and more productive way to manufacture goods. In his case, automobile assembly line. • Mass production – result of assembly line; changed industry forever! People could produce more quanties of goods faster. Decreased cost and prices!
Selling Goods • Factories start making lots of products leads to changes in selling goods • Home mail delivery begins • Sears & Roebuck Catalogs • Chain Stores