Objectives: to identify other major industries and name

inventions developed and their inventors

Cattle ranching grew with the railroads

Meat-packing industry then grew Developed by Philip Armour,

Gustavus Swift and Nelson Morris Led to the creation of a refrigerated

railroad car

Vanderbilt and James Hill were instrumental in constructing new railroads

Created first great railroad system: the New York Central

First to use steel rails, bridges and double tracks

Hill created new settlements to help immigrants along the new railroads

Thomas Edison- had an invention factory, where other inventors could work

Created the first indoor electric light bulb Created the phonograph, which

reproduced sound Alexander Graham Bell- telephone 1876 George Eastman Kodak- 1880 Kodak

camera

Lewis Waterman- 1884 Fountain Pen Ottmar Mergenthaler- 1884 typesetting George Washington Carver- Helped

created equipment for crops Booker T. Washington- started the

Tuskegee Institute Elisha Otis- 1889 elevator Henry Ford- gas powered automobile

engines Horatio Alger- Writer who explained

“rags to riches”