1. American Industrialization

2. What is Industrialization?
the large-scale introduction of manufacturing, advanced technical enterprises, and other productive economic activity into an area, society, country, etc.
During the Gilded Age new inventions and innovations increased our rate of industrialization

3. who changed the way Americans live
Inventors
and
innovators
who changed the way Americans live

4. Samuel F. B. Morse Perfected the telegraph (did not invent it)
1844 – sent first telegraph message
Morse Code – short & long electrical impulses to represent letters of the alphabet
Began a communication revolution

5. The Telegraph

6. Morse Code

7. Edwin L. Drake 1859 Titusville, PA
Drilled for oil using steam powered engine
Cheaper and more efficient way to obtain oil

8. Drake’s Well Titusville, Pennsylvania 1859 Produced 10 barrels per day

9. Thomas Edison 1880 improved the filament in light bulbs (bamboo fiber)
1882 built first power plant that lit dozens of buildings in NYC
Used direct current which could only travel short distances
Received over 1090 patents from U.S. Govt. for his inventions

10. Thomas Edison

11. Thomas Edison

12. Thomas Edison

13. Nikola Tesla Inventor who was born in Croatia
Pioneered discoveries in the generation and transmission of electricity
Developed the idea of the alternating current induction motor (1886) –a way of generating electrical power 

15. George Westinghouse 1885 Used alternating current (AC)
Cheaper & traveled longer distance than direct current (DC)
Invented the transformer to boost or reduce the power level as needed
Made home electricity use practical

16. Alexander Graham Bell 1876 – Patented the “talking telegraph”
1885 – Set up the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) to build long distance telephone lines
1900 – 1.5 million telephones in use in America

17. The earliest “talking telegraphs”

18. The latest “talking telegraphs”

19. Henry Bessemer
1856 – England - received first patent for the “Bessemer process”
Made production of steel from iron faster and cheaper
Mass production of steel allowed the building of skyscrapers, railroad rails, and large suspension bridges (Brooklyn Bridge 1883)

20. Gustavus Swift Founder of the meat-packing firm Swift & Company
Competed against Phillip Armour of the Armour Meat Packing Company
Took the invention of Thaddeus Lowe’s Ice Machine and created the refrigerated railroad car (1870s) to ship his meat

22. Orville and Wilbur Wright
The Wright brother’s are responsible for the word’s first successful airplane
They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft on December 17, 1903
Marked the birth of “aeronautics” as an industry

23. Orville's brother Wilbur piloting the record flight lasting 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet.