1. Which of these inventions do you feel has had the strongest impact on society and why? PICK ONE! -Telephone -Computer -Refrigerator -Camera -Phonograph (sound recorder) -Electric sewing machine

2.  Put your name on each bathroom pass that you have and pass them forward

3. How do technological innovations affect the production, distribution, and consumption of goods in a market economy?

4. What motivates people to invent and be innovative?

5. Patents Copyrights Entrepreneur Bessemer Process

6. So what did you come up with??

8.  We studied innovation before…  New ideas that are accepted into a society

9.  Moving from the idea of using a horse to the idea of using a car as means of transportation

10.  Creation of a new product or process to benefit society

11.  The creation of the engine inside a car

12.  No indoor electric lights  No refrigeration  Snail Mail:  In 1860, most mail from the East Coast took ten days to reach the Midwest and three weeks to get to the West Coast. A letter from Europe to a person on the frontier could take several months to reach its destination.

13.  Power stations across the country began providing electricity for lamps, fans, printing presses, and many other appliances.

15.  License to make, use, or sell an invention  1790-1860, 36,000 issued  1860-1890, 500,000 issued

24. What invention has had the greatest impact on YOUR life?