The Industrial Revolution Spreads

The Industrial Revolution Spreads Chapter 9 Section 1

#1a Bessemer Process • Created a process to purify iron ore and turn it into STEEL

#1b Alfred Nobel • Swedish chemist who invented dynamite

#1c Michael Faraday • English chemist created first simple electric motor DYNAMO

#1d Thomas Edison • American inventor created the light bulb

#1e Henry Ford • American manufacturer who first used the assembly line to make cars

#1f Orville and Wilbur Wright • American bicycle makers designed and flew first airplane at Kitty hawk, North Carolina.

#1g Guglielmo Marconi • Italian inventor created the first radio, transmitted Morse code from Great Britain to Canada in 1901

#1h Alfred Krupp • German businessman who created a monopoly in steel making industry

#2a Dyanmo • A machine that generates electricity

#2b interchangeable Parts • Identical components that could be used in place of one another

#2c Assembly Line • Workers add parts to a product that moves along a belt

#2d Stock • Shares in a company each stockholder in essence becomes part owner

#2e Corporation • businesses that are owned by many investors who buy shares

#2f Cartel • A group of large corporations associated to fix prices, set production quotas, or • control markets [OPEC]

#3 How did the Industrial Revolution spread in the 1800s? • A British mechanic opened a factory in Belgium in 1807. Other European countries, as well as the United States and Japan, eventually learned British technology and created their own inventions

#4 How did technology help industry expand? • Scientists developed new products and technologies. Their achievements included a process fro producing steel, the development of dynamite, and the creation of the dynamo for generating electricity.

#5 How did the need for capital lead to new business methods? • To raise needed capital, large companies became corporations and sold shares of the business to investors.

The Industrial Revolution Spreads