Inventions

Thomas Edison  Phonograph  Telegraph system  Light blub  At age 31 was known as the wizard of Menlo Park  His team would help him create generators, meters and cables

Samuel F.B. Morse  Telegraph- Dot-Dash System  D.C  Baltimore  1 st message  Telegraph follow many railroad lines  Western Union company own most of the telegraphs  A million miles of telegraph wires carried more than 60 million messages a year

Alexander Graham Bell  Telephone  March,  Bell Telephone company  ,000 phones were in use

Wright brothers  Airplane  1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright  Created the 1 st powered airplane flew it at Kitty Hawk North Carolina

Edwin Drake  Drilling for Oil  1858 Drake  Went to Penn. on a business trip rediscovers Surface oil  Decides to use the technique of Salt well drilling  August weeks hit oil  Fuel for lamps, machinery, later will be use for automobiles

Henry Bessemer  Better Steel  England Develops a method for making steel  Bessemer process  blow air through molten iron + air removes all impurities  Steel!

Andrew Carnegie  Investor in Steel – Brings Bessemer Process to U.S.  Invests heavily in the steel industry of the U.S.  1873 Carnegie Steel Co.  Builds the largest steel mill in Pittsburg,Penn.  Harder steel creates taller buildings

Henry Ford  Moving Assembly line  One person doing one job all the time  Creates mass production  Model-T Car

J.D. Rockefeller  Oil King  1860  Refining oil in Cleveland, OH  1870  Creates Standard Oil  Uses the rail road to undercut other companies  1882  Runs the Oil Monopoly

J.P Morgan  Financial Giant  Richest man in America during the late 1800’s into the early 1900’s  Saves the USA from going into a depression in the early 1900’s  Chase bank

Cornelius Vanderbilt  Railroad King  Runs a Railroad monopoly  Owns the rail way lines in the Northeast  Is known as a brutal business man

What is a Patent  Inventor has the sole legal right to make or sell an invention for a specified period of time…  1790  First Government patents given out  1860  36,000 patents handed out  1861  1900= 600,000 patents given out

Electricity for Cities  Business stay open later  Factories work all night  People can read at night and do more at home  Mostly in cities not in rural areas those citizens will wait decades till electricity is available