1. A New Industrial Age Chapter 6
The Expansion of Industry
Section 1 Notes

2. Natural Resources Fuel Industrialization
Civil War era – agricultural nation
1920s – leading industrial power
Wealth of natural resources
Gov’t support of business
Growing urban population
Cheap labor and markets for new products

3. Black Gold Little use for oil in early years
1840s – kerosene for lamps
Edwin L. Drake
Steam engine to drill for oil in PA
Drilling oil more practical now
Petroleum-refining industries arose
Cleveland and Pittsburgh
Gasoline for automobiles will become important

5. Bessemer Steel Process 1850
Abundant coal and iron
deposits
Mesabi Range, MN – 100 miles
of iron deposits
250 million tons of coal produced
in 1900
Iron – dense metal, often breaks
or rusts
Remove carbon to make it stronger
Bessemer Process – Henry Bessemer
Inject air into molten iron to remove carbon

7. Steel Usage Railroads biggest customers – track Barbed wire
Farm machines – John Deere
Transformed Plains into food producer
Construction
Brooklyn Bridge, 1883
Home Insurance Building, Chicago – 1st skyscraper w/ steel farms

8. Inventions Lead to Change
Electricity – Thomas Alva Edison
Perfected the light bulb, 1880
System of distributing electrical power
Ran numerous machines
Fans, printing press for newspapers, meat packing
Eventually available in households
Appliances
Manufacturers could locate businesses wherever
No longer essential to be near a power source (river)

9. Lifestyle Changes Light bulb Typewriter – Christopher Sholes, 1867
Stay up later, longer work hours, etc.
Typewriter – Christopher Sholes, 1867
Office work affected
Created new jobs for women
40% of clerical work force, 1910
Telephone – Alexander Graham Bell, 1876
Improved communications