1750’s - Present

Thomas Newcomen “CLAIM TO FAME” - Perfects the steam engine PRACTICAL USES: -Work is now done by machines, not humans

James Watt “CLAIM TO FAME” -Improved Newcomen’s version of the steam engine PRACTICAL USES: -Pumped water out of the mines -Factories now located away from running water

Henry Cort “CLAIM TO FAME” -Puddling -Turned pig iron into wrought iron PRACTICAL USES: -Made better quality iron products

Eli Whitney “CLAIM TO FAME” -Interchangeable parts PRACTICAL USES: -Goods cheaper and easier to fix -Mass production of goods -Specialization of Labor

Robert Fulton “CLAIM TO FAME” -Built the 1 st steamship -”Clermont” PRACTICAL USES: -Water travel is now quicker and easier -Traveling upstream is now possible

George Stephenson “CLAIM TO FAME” - Built the 1 st effective Steam Locomotive -“The Rocket” PRACTICAL USES:-Mass transportation of goods over land

Charles Goodyear “CLAIM TO FAME” -Vulcanization or (strengthening) of rubber PRACTICAL USES: -Creation of better quality rubber products (Erasers, Tires, Etc…)

Karl Marx “CLAIM TO FAME” -The Communist Manifesto PRACTICAL USES: -Unite the proletariat and overthrow the bourgeoisie -Classless society

Sir Henry Bessemer “CLAIM TO FAME” -The original “Man of Steel” -Invented the Bessemer Converter PRACTICAL USES: -Invented a way to mass produce steel -Stronger and lighter than iron

Nicolaus Otto “CLAIM TO FAME” -Internal Combustion Engine PRACTICAL USES: -Produces an engine powerful enough to replace the steam engine.

Alexander Graham Bell “CLAIM TO FAME” -Advancements in sound production PRACTICAL USES: -Talking over long distances -ex. Telephone & Phonograph

EARLY SWITCHBOARDSWITCHBOARD OPERATOR

EARLY ROTARY PHONEMODERN ROTARY PHONE

CELL PHONE INVENTORCELL PHONE TOWER

MODERN CELL PHONES

Thomas Edison “CLAIM TO FAME” -1,093 different patents -Improved the light bulb PRACTICAL USES: -Factories could now be open 24 hours a day Livermore, California Firehouse light bulb:

Gottleib Daimler “CLAIM TO FAME” -Built the world’s 1st automobile PRACTICAL USES: -Transportation is now quicker and easier

Guglielmo Marconi “CLAIM TO FAME”  Built the radio PRACTICAL USES:  Transmits sounds over long distances without wires

Henry Ford “CLAIM TO FAME”  Assembly line production PRACTICAL USES:  Made mass production of goods easier

Women’s Rights

Leisure Activities of the early 1900’s Coney Island Map