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?”