1. Age of Invention

2. Age of Invention Railroads George Pullman: George Westinghouse:
Invented the sleeping railcar.
George Westinghouse:
Invented the air brake, making travel much safer.
Railroad connected raw materials to factories, and factories to consumers.

3. Age of Invention Steel Bessemer Process: Created by Henry Bessemer
Reduced the cost of making steel by 80 %

4. Age of Invention Communication Samuel Morse: Cyrus Fields:
Invented the telegraph allowing messages to be sent over long distances instantly
Cyrus Fields:
Developed the transatlantic cable, able to send telegraph to Europe instantly.
Alexander Graham Bell:
Developed the Telephone, so you communicate over long distance with natural speech.

5. Age of Invention Electricity Thomas Edison
Developed the Phonograph, an audio recording device.
Lightbulb
Filled over 1000 patents in his lifetime.

6. Age of Invention Oil Edwin Drake
Developed the first oil drilling machine.
Doing away with the oil made from whale fat.

7. Age of Invention Other Invention: Henry Forde: Wright Brothers:
Invented interchangeable parts and the assembly line.
Wright Brothers:
Invented the first airplane.
Charles Sholes:
Invented the typewrite and the first keyboard.

8. Age of Invention Women Inventors: Sarah Goode: Madam C.J. Walker:
Invented the fold away bed. Important because of how crowded city apartments were.
Madam C.J. Walker:
Invented remedial shapes to help with scalp disease.
First African American millionaire

9. Age of Invention African American Inventers Lewis Latimer:
Created a longer lasting light bulb
Garret Morgan
Invented the gas mask and the traffic signal.