Invention #1

• Sewing Machine• Elias Howe• Revolutionized the

clothing industry and people began to buy their own clothes instead of making them.

Invention #2

• Electricity• Thomas Edison• Did not invent

electricity or a light bulb• Invented a practical way

to use electricity for light in your house

• Gas was used up until this point

Invention #3

• Telephone• Alexander Graham Bell• It was an accident when

he was fiddling with a transmitter after he spilled acid on himself

Industry #1

• Oil Industry• John D. Rockefeller• Rockefeller put his

competitors out of business by buying all of the oil businesses.

• Rockefeller created a monopoly in the oil industry.

Industry #2

• Steel Industry• Andrew Carnegie• Carnegie tried to beat

his competition by making the best and cheapest product.

• Sold his company to J.P. Morgan, the nation’s top banker, for $480 million.