what natural resources were key to u.s. industrialization? how did inventions in the period effect...

What natural resources were key to U.S. industrialization?

How did inventions in the period effect business and social life?

Things you will learn:

The Age of Railroads

Time Zones

Industry in Gilded Age

Oil:

• used for lamps, machinery

• Begin to use steam drill by Edwin Drake to get out of ground

• Drill in KY, OH, IL, IN

Coal:

• used for fires to power steam engines on trains, fires to make steel, heat homes

• Mined in WV, PA, OH, IN, IL

Natural Resources

Iron Ore:

• used to make steel

• use coal fires to burn carbon out and make steel

Steel:

•William Kelly & Bessemer Process

• uses: RRs, barbed wire, farm machinery, bridges, skyscrapers

Inventions

Electricity:

• Thomas Edison

• Perfected light bulb

• Power grid

• Uses: Factories streetcars appliances

Inventions

Typewriter:

• Christopher Sholes/ James Densmore

• Sped up / standardized communication

Telephones:

• Alex Graham Bell

• Speeded communication / rate of business

Creates clerical jobs for white single women