1. Ch. 19-2 Notes Inventions Mrs. Manley

2. New inventions improved transportation & communication networks--- essential for growth of industry! Inventions that improved communication: – Telegraph invented by Samuel Morse; almost instant messages in Morse Code. – Transatlantic telegraph invented by Cyrus Field linked the US and Europe via telegraphs

3. Telegraph is improved upon with telephone; transmits speech not just code Invented by Alexander Graham Bell; “Mr. Watson, come here! I want you!”It was an accident! But WOW!

4. Other inventions that improve businesses Typewriter- Christopher Sholes Adding Machine- William Burroughs The Kodak Small box camera- George Eastman Vacuum cleaner- John Thurman

5. Thomas Edison Edison’s workshop was in Menlo Park, New Jersey. “Wizard of Menlo Park” Inventions: – Phonograph (music) – Motion picture projector (video) – Telephone transmitter – Storage battery – Electric light bulb – Power plants

6. Other Inventors George Westinghouse- improved on Edison’s work and developed transformers to send electricity over distances Leads to powered factories, trolleys, streetlights, lights in homes African American Inventors: – Lewis Howard Latimer- lightbulb filament – Granville Woods- electromagnetic brake, circuit breaker – Elijiah McCoy- oiling mechanism – Jan Matzeliger- shoe-making machine

7. Improvements to transportation: – Henry Ford- wanted to make an affordable car Model T- was described as “a car that anyone could afford to buy, which anyone could drive anywhere, and which almost anyone could keep in repair.” Assembly line- pioneered by Ford; less expensive and more productive way to manufacture goods. In his case, automobile assembly line. Mass production – result of assembly line; changed industry forever! People could produce more quanties of goods faster. Decreased cost and prices!

8. Selling Goods Factories start making lots of products leads to changes in selling goods Home mail delivery begins Sears & Roebuck Catalogs Chain Stores