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BELL RINGER On your own or with a partner,
think about a time when you went on vacation or travelled out of town.
Brainstorm: List the technology that made it easier for you than someone who might have made this same trip 100 years ago.
How did you get there?What did you do?Where did you eat?What form(s) of
communication did you use?
WHO ARE THESE INVENTORS???
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NOTES: EARLY
AMERICAN INVENTIONS
SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS
CHANGED AMERICAN LIFE & IMPROVED OUR STANDARD OF LIVING.
Four major changes to
American society included:
Increased factory & labor productivity.
Transportation (including the use of the automobile).
Improved communication.
Rural electrification.
TECHNOLOGY EXTENDED
PROGRESS INTO ALL AREAS OF
AMERICAN LIFE, INCLUDING
NEGLECTED RURAL AREAS.
Workers from the Rural
Electrification Administration
putting in a pole, Brown County,
Kansas. This was the first rural
electrical line in Kansas. (1938)
REVIEW: HOW DID INDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE RISE OF BIG BUSINESS INFLUENCE LIFE ON FARMS AND IN CITIES?
RISE OF MECHANIZATION HELPED INDUSTRIES ALL
OVER THE UNITED STATES TO GROW.
Examples you
already know…
•Carnegie : Steel
•Rockefeller: Oil
•Vanderbilt: Railroads
and Shipping
INVENTIONS THAT
IMPROVED TRANSPORTA
TION
Henry Ford did not invent the
assembly line…he improved it by
making it move.
HENRY FORD AND THE USE OF THE ASSEMBLY LINE:
Henry Ford’s Model T
will be the U.S.’s first
affordable
automobile.
He calls it the “Everyman’s Car.”
300,000 are sold in 1913…
by 1924 there is a Model T built every
24 seconds!!!
America is on the MOVE !!!
RESULTS OF IMPROVED TRANSPORTATION BROUGHT
ABOUT BY AFFORDABLE AUTOMOBILES:
1. Greater mobility.2. Creation of jobs.3. Growth of
transportation-related industries such as… Road Construction, Oil, Steel, & Automobiles.
4. Movement from urban to suburban areas.
Invention
of the
Airplane:
On December 17, 1903
brothers, Orville and Wilber Wright, will
make the first successful
powered flight.
Orville was the first to take off, at 10:35 a.m., and flew the Wright Flyer I for 12 seconds, covering a distance of 120 feet,
against a 20-m.p.h. wind.
The second and third flights covered 175 & 200 feet respectively.
In the fourth and last flight, Wilbur remained aloft for 59 seconds and flew 852 feet.
It will be the start of the
aviation age… travel will
never be the same again.
INVENTIONS THAT
IMPROVED COMMUNICAT
ION & ENTERTAINME
NT
ELECTRIFICATION CHANGED AMERICAN
LIFE:
Four major changes:
1. Electric lighting.2. Provided
Entertainment.3. Improved
communications.4. Created Labor-saving
products that made life easier.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
INVENTED THE LIGHT BULB AND
MECHANICAL USES OF
ELECTRICITY.
EFFECTS OF THE LIGHT
BULB
An Original Edison Bulb
and Patented
EFFECTS OF THE LIGHT BULB
1. Extends the work day.
2. Increases productivity.
3. Provides a measure of safety with the addition of street lights and eliminating the need for propane lamps inside buildings.
COMMUNICATION CHANGES:1. Increased
availability of telephones.
2. Development of the radio and broadcast industry (Marconi).
3. Development of the movies (motion pictures).
Guglielmo Marconi with his first radio.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL INVENTED THE TELEPHONE,
IMPROVING COMMUNICATION.
Link: How to use a rotary phone
Link: How a “switch board works
Though many people will
construct different types of
projectors, which produce moving pictures, Thomas Edison will invent
the first “commercially
successful” projector in 1896.
Radio: The
Broadcast Industry
David Sarnoff
Broadcast:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukk6_OF0UPU
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3gjRDzss0M
LABOR-SAVING
INVENTIONS
Many inventions improved the lives of families & help us to save time… such as the refrigerator, washing machine, running water,
toaster, and electric stove.
START OF INVENTIONS
FOR: DAY 2
EARLY AMERICAN
INVENTIONS OF THE GILDED
AGE
INVENTIONS THAT
IMPROVED TRANSPORTA
TION
Orville and Wilber Wright invented the first plane which flew in Kitty Hawk, NC on Dec. 17, 1903; this
invention made it possible to travel by air.
1. Invention: Airplane Inventor(s) Name(s):
Orville and Wilber Wright
Year the Invention was created and/or patented: Dec. 17, 1903 (Patented in March 1903)
2 interesting facts about the invention: Very important in the 1st and 2nd World
Wars. Wright brothers started working on
bicycles, moved to gliders, then to planes.
Impact on society: Travel along long distances was quicker. Created a new industry.
2. Invention: Automobile
Inventor(s) Name(s): Henry Ford
Year the Invention was created and/or patented: Model T invented and patented --1903
2 interesting facts about the invention: Ford could produce large quantities
quickly and inexpensively. First affordable car. Model –T and movable parts
Assembly Line improved in 1908.
Impact on society: Jobs, Mobility, Travel, & created the modern
suburb.
INVENTIONS THAT
IMPROVED COMMUNICAT
ION & ENTERTAINME
NT
Communication & information distribution
was improved by the invention of the
telephone, telegraph, phonograph, motion pictures, and radio.
3. Invention: Telephone Inventor(s) Name(s):
Alexander Graham Bell
Year the Invention was created and/or patented: 1876 (patented the same year)
2 interesting facts about the invention: Wanted people to say “Ahoy” not “Hello.” Marked the end of the telegraphy.
Impact on society: Revolutionized communication (instantaneous
communication). New Industry (ex: AT&T), jobs, socializing.
4. Invention: Radio Inventor(s) Name(s):
- Guglielmo Marconi
Year the Invention was created and/or patented: Invented -1895
2 interesting facts about the invention: David Sarnoff created NBC. (1st
broadcasting company.
Impact on society: Changed our lives by improving
entertainment, information, & news.
5. Invention: Movies Inventor(s) Name(s):
- Thomas Edison (first commercially successful projector).
Year the Invention was created and/or patented: William Lincoln :1867 George Eastman: 1882 Auguste & Louis Lumiere :1895 Edison: 1896 (his version was
patented)
2 interesting facts about the invention: First talking movie ever filmed was
the “Jazz Singer.” Animated pictures were first created using a
devise called the “wheel of life.”
Impact on society: News entertainment, job, created
celebrities.
Auguste & Louis Lumiere
Edison
ELECTRIFICATION AND LABOR-SAVING
INVENTIONS
6. Invention: Washing Machine
Inventor(s) Name(s): Hamilton Smith William Blackstone Otto Warburg
Year the Invention was created and/or patented: Invented 1858: Hamilton Smith Invented 1874: William Blackstone Otto Warburg: 1908 (The “Thor”)
2 interesting facts about the invention: 1797 the “washing board” sparked the idea
for this invention Fast and efficient way to clean clothes.
Impact on society: Created the soap industry and additional
leisure time.
7. Invention: Electric Stove Inventor(s) Name(s):
- Thomas Ahearn - Lloyd Copeman
Year the Invention was created and/or patented:
-1882: Thomas Ahearn stove invented (only used in 1 Canadian hotel)
On June 30, 1896 William Hadaway was issued the first patent for an electric oven.
2 interesting facts about the invention: Thick metal coils get hot- this is what is used to
cook. In homes by the 1930s (towns had to
have electricity first).
Impact on society: Created jobs, cooking ease, additional
leisure time and safety.
8. Invention: Water Pumps Inventor(s) Name(s):
- John G. Appold Year the Invention was created and/or
patented: Year credited for invention - 1851
2 interesting facts about the invention: First brought into the home in the late 1800s. Provides running water to use inside the
home. -Hydro Power: provides electricity.
Impact on society: Access to water, electric motors replaced
water wheels, running water in homes and businesses.
9. Invention: Electric Lighting
Inventor(s) Name(s): Thomas Edison
Year the Invention was created and/or patented: Patented on January 27, 1880.
2 interesting facts about the invention: In 1915 electric wiring is strung. In the 1920s people change from gas to
electric lighting which is safer.
Impact on society: Provided light after the sun set and
increased work hours. Improved safety.
MORE INVENTIONS
OF THE GILDED AGE
Invention: Phonograph (Recorded sound/music)
Inventor(s) Name(s): Thomas Alva Edison
Year the Invention was created and/or patented: Invented 1877; Patented 1878
2 interesting facts about the invention: Recorded music, speeches, sound on
cylinders. Lead to inventions such as CD’s &
Ipods.
Invention: Refrigerators
Inventor(s) Name(s): -Carl Paul Gottfried von Linde
Year the Invention was created and/or patented:
1877
2 interesting facts about the invention:First small fringe cost $25.Food could last longer.
Note :
Henry Ford:Play “America: The Story of Us” from… “Boom” 10:50 to 17: 30
The Great Migration:Note : Play “America: The Story of Us” from…
“Boom” 26:00- 33:00
Prohibition: 33:00- 46
100 YEARS AGO VERSUS TODAY