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