Computer

Internet

Airbags

Cell phones

Video games

Pick two and write a paragraph describing their importance in American’s daily lives.

The Expansion of Industry

Late 1800s

Industrial Boom

After the Civil War, the US was largely an agricultural nation.

1920s it had become the leading industrial power in the world.

Factors:Wealth of natural resources

Government supports business

Growing urban population (cheap labor and markets for new products)

How did these factors leave to an industrial boom?

Natural Resources

Black Gold- OilNative Americans made fuel and medicine from crude oil

1840s Americans begain using kerosene to light lamps.

Cars- Gasoline in high demand.

Iron Ore- SteelRailroads

Barbed Wire

Brooklyn Bridge

Home Insurance Building in Chicago

Electricity

Edison’s incandescent light bulb

Invented a system for producing and distributing electrical power.

Electricity and BusinessRan numerous machines

Electricity and HomeEnergy soon became available in hoes and spurred the invention of time-saving appliances.

Electric streetcars

Manufacturers could locate their plants wherever they wanted.

Inventions

Typewriter, 1867Author Mark Twain, was excited when he learned about typewriters. He rushed out to buy one, writing letters in all capitals to his friends about its usefulness: “THE MACHINE HAS SEVERAL VIRTUES….IT PILES AN AWFUL STACK OF WORDS ON ONE PAGE. IT DON’T MUSS THINGS OR SCATTER INK BLOTS AROUND. OF COURSE IT SAVES PAPER.

Telephone, 1876

Which invention or development do you think had the greatest impact on society?

Eijah McCoy

“Is this the real McCoy?”