1. 14.1: The Expansion of Industry
At the end of the 19th century, natural resources, creative ideas, and growing markets fueled an industrial boom.
CLQ: West and Populism

2. Natural Resources Fuel Industrialization
The Growth of Industry
by 1920s, world’s leading industrial power, due to:
*Wealth of natural resources
*government support for business [lack of interference]
*Growing urban population

3. Natural Resources Fuel Industrialization
Black Gold
1859, Edwin L. Drake successfully use steam engine to drill for oil
Petroleum—refining industry first makes kerosene, then gasoline

4. Bessemer Steel Process
abundant deposits of coal, iron spur industry
Bessemer process converts iron [element] to steel [alloy]

7. New Uses for Steel used in railroads, barbed wire, farm machines.
changes construction: Brooklyn Bridge; steel-framed skyscrapers

8. cut off: show Bessemer process and skyscraper building

9. The Power of Electricity
1876, Thomas Alva Edison estab first research lab:
*1880, patents incandescent light bulb.
*creates system for electrical production, distribution
electricity changes business; by 1890, runs numerous machines
available in homes; encourages invention of appliances
allows manufactures to locate plants anyplace

10. Thomas Alva Edison
“Wizard of Menlo Park”

11. The Light Bulb

12. The Phonograph (1877)

13. The Ediphone or Dictaphone

14. The Motion Picture Camera

15. Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone (1876)

17. Niagara Falls Power Plant
Alternate Current
Niagara Falls Power Plant
George Westinghouse

18. Alternate Current
Westinghouse Lamp ad

20. The Airplane Wilbur Wright Orville Wright
Kitty Hawk, NC – December 7, 1903

21. Model T Automobile
Henry Ford I want to pay my workers so that they can afford my product!

22. “Model T” Prices & Sales

23. U. S. Patents Granted 1790s  276 patents issued.

24. Inventions Change Lifestyles
office work changes, brings women into the work force
traditional jobs of women at home brought into factories (sewing/clothing)
industrialization makes jobs easier; improves standard of living
*By 1890, average workweek 10 hours shorter
*As consumers, workers regain power in market