1. The Industrial Revolution 1865-1915
AIM: How did industrialization increase the speed of change?
Do Now: What is a “revolution?” What is “modern?”
Industrial Revolution: a change from making things by hand to making them in factories.

2. What is being advertised
What is being advertised? What can you infer about Detroit from this advertisement?

3. Industrial Centers
Where were the nation’s major industrial centers located? Why were they located in these areas?

4. Transportation Pre-Industrial Rev.? Industrial Rev.?
Why is transportation directly linked to the start of the Industrial Revolution?

5. Textiles: Boston
spinning jenny and the power loom textile industry boomed
Spinning Wheel (hand-spun)  Spinning Jenny

6. The Power Loom The power loom used water power to spin the thread
More cloth made

7. A cotton factory

8. Agriculture
seed drill allowed farmers to plant more seeds at faster rates
reaper allowed farmers to harvest their crops more efficiently.

9. Steel
Steelbuildings could be made much taller.
harder than iron

10. Thomas Edison’s “Invention Factory,” Menlo Park, NJ
Light Bulb
Phonograph
Motion picture camera
“Phon:” sound
“Graph:” writing
“Tele:” away

11. Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell patented the first telephone in 1876.

12. Henry Ford invented the first practical car, the Model T.
Ford Motor Company, Detroit, MI

13. Orville and Wilber Wright Brothers
first men to successfully fly an airplane.
12 seconds, 120 feet
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

14. 1876 Centennial Exposition
First world fair in celebration of America’s 100th year
Philly, PA
Showcased America’s “progress”
Highlights: building of the Statue of Liberty (finished 1886)

15. Was America making actual progress during the Industrial Revolution?