1. Industrialization of America
From “Rags to Riches”

2. POWERHOUSE

3. Transformation of America
The Second Industrial Revolution

5. The Standard Oil Octopus

7. PUCK magazine
The Bosses of the Senate

8. Fueling American Industry
coal
Abundance of natural resources
Coal
Iron ore
Oil
Water- electricity
Timber
oil
Iron ore

9. Drake Strikes Oil Edwin Drake Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company.
Drilling for underground oil
August 27, 1859 struck oil at 69 feet down.
TITUSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
First operating oil well.

10. E L E C T R I C I T Y
Thomas Edison
George Westinghouse
Lewis Latimer

11. Thomas Alva Edison The “Wizard of Menlo Park”
Lab at Menlo Park, New Jersey
Invention Factory
1,093 patents.
Incandescent light bulb.
Phonograph
Motion picture camera
Kinetoscope (peep show viewer)
General Electric 1892

12. Electric Lamp

13. George Westinghouse WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC 1886
Developed a device called a transformer. The transformer allowed electricity to be efficiently transmitted over long distances. This made it possible to supply electricity to homes and businesses located far from the electric generating plant.
Experimented with the use of ALTERNATING CURRENT – AC – which is less expensive and more practical.
WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC 1886

14. Lewis Latimer
Worked with Edison
Patented improvements to light bulb.

15. COMMUNICATIONS
Prior to 1840s, messages had to be delivered by post riders and Pony Express.

16. T E L E G R A P H

17. T E L E G R A P H
Samuel Morse
Morse Code -1844

18. W E S T E R N U N I O N

19. Transatlantic Telegraph Cable

20. T E L E P H O N E Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson
“Talking Telegraph”
“Mr. Watson, please come here. I want you.”
BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY

21. Bell’s Patent

22. "The Preacher of the Near Future Conducting Service a la Telephone"
Imagined Uses of the Telephone, from "What Science May Do For Us," Life. 5:121 (April 23, 1885)
"The Preacher of the Near Future Conducting Service a la Telephone"

23. "The Wife of the Bosom Could Attend Service and Prepare the Dinner"
Imagined Uses of the Telephone, from "What Science May Do For Us," Life. 5:121 (April 23, 1885)
"The Wife of the Bosom Could Attend Service and Prepare the Dinner"

24. "How My Puritan Ancestors would have 'caught on' to this"
Imagined Uses of the Telephone, from "What Science May Do For Us," Life. 5:121 (April 23, 1885)
"How My Puritan Ancestors would have 'caught on' to this"

25. "No Going to Church Without Your Breakfast"
Imagined Uses of the Telephone, from "What Science May Do For Us," Life. 5:121 (April 23, 1885)
"No Going to Church Without Your Breakfast"

26. HENRY BESSEMER & WILLIAM KELLY
S T E E L
Turning Iron Ore into S T E E L
The Bessemer Process
HENRY BESSEMER & WILLIAM KELLY

27. The Bessemer Process

28. The Bessemer Process

29. S T E E L
Key uses.
Railroad track
Skyscrapers

30. Steel Suspension Bridges Brooklyn Bridge

31. Fueling American Industry
Abundant labor force

32. Impact of the RAILROADS
Railroad building and the railroad network transformed the nation’s economy.
Helped industry and agriculture prosper.

33. The TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD

34. Transcontinental Railroad
Pacific Railway Act of 1862
Union Pacific Railroad
Central Pacific Railroad

35. Transcontinental Railroad
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD
Began construction from Omaha, Nebraska
Used many Irish immigrants in labor force

36. Transcontinental Railroad
CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD
Began construction from Sacramento, California
Used many Chinese immigrants on labor force

37. TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
Completed on May 10, 1869
Union Pacific and Central Pacific met at Promontory Point in Utah

38. The Golden Spike Ceremony

39. Leland Stanford drives in the final spike. *
“The Last Spike” (1881) by Thomas Hill

41. Railroad Land Grants

42. Railroad Network by 1880