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AMERICAN INVENTIONSThe Dawn of the Modern Era
THE TYPEWRITERInvented in 1874 by Christopher Scholes
TELEPHONEAlexander Graham Bell
BELL AND HIS ASSISTANT SHOWING OFF THEIR FIRST TELEPHONE
1892 FIRST PHONE CALLNY TO Chicago
FIRST SUBWAY , NY CITY1870’s
PHONOGRAPH
THOMAS EDISON PROTOTYPE
THOMAS EDISON INCANDESCENT LIGHT
ORIGINAL DESIGNS
MAIL ORDER CATALOG
GEORGE EASTMAN---KODAK CAMERA
DANIEL BURNHAM AND LOUIS SULLIVAN
Flat Iron Building NY CITY Guaranty Building Buffalo NY 1894
EDWIN DRAKE
Titusville Pennsylvania---first steam powered oil drill
GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE
Invented the Alternator and the Airbrake for trains. He is also credited with investigating electric current and safer ways of handling electricity
BROOKLYN BRIDGE
Longest Suspension Bridge in the world for many years.
Completed at great cost in 1883
WRIGHT FLYER
1903 The Wright Brothers of Ohio came to Kitty Hawk NC to test their powered flyer.
First Powered Flight
HENRY FORDHe didn’t invent the car. He simply mass produced it cheaply so everyone could afford one.
TUSKEEGE INSTITUTEOne of many Black Colleges opened during reconstructionMade famous by its many high level graduates and talented professors!
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERFamous for Chemistry and experiments for using peanuts for various purposes in order to improve agriculture and science
MEN OF ACTION
BOOKER T WASHINGTON W.E.B. DU BOIS