THE EXPANSION OF INDUSTRY

1. Which Resources played crucial roles in

industrialization?•Crude Oil

•Iron Ore

•Coal

2. How did Edwin Drake help industry to acquire larger

quantities of oil?• Used a steam

engine to extract oil

from beneath the

earth

3. How did the Bessemer process allow better use of iron

ore?

•Cheap, efficient way to make

steel from iron ore

4. What new uses for steel were developed at this time?

•Railroads•Barbed Wire•Farm Machines•Canned Food•Bridges•Skyscrapers

5. How did Thomas Edison contribute to this

development?•Research LabLight Bulb (perfected)

•System for producing and distributing Power

6. How did George Westinghouse contribute to it?•Made Electricity Safer and more efficient

•Encouraged Science to explore electricity

7/8. How did Christopher Sholes and Alexander Graham

Bell contribute?

• Typewriter • Telephone

• Both opened many employment opportunities for women.