Technological Technological Innovations Innovations

Between Between 1876-19201876-1920Margaret PeachMargaret Peach

Houston Elementary SchoolHouston Elementary School

Great Innovations Great Innovations Telephone/Telephone/

TelegraphTelegraph Mass Produced Mass Produced

AutomobileAutomobile Incandescent LampIncandescent Lamp Motion PicturesMotion Pictures KinetoscopeKinetoscope OrnithopterOrnithopter GramophoneGramophone Just to name a few!Just to name a few!

Our FocusOur Focus

Alexander Graham Bell

Thomas Alva Edison

Henry Ford

The Innovations of :

•Bell

•Edison

•Ford

Alexander Graham BellAlexander Graham Bell 1876-Invents telephone at 29

years old Four years to develop First words spoken over

electricity First words on phone- “Mr.

Watson come here I need you.”

1877 forms Bell Telephone which becomes AT&T

Diverse interests from sheep breeding to hydrofoils

Driven by geniusFirst Telephone

Bell’s Original Drawing for Bell’s Original Drawing for the Telephone and the Telephone and Watson’s NotebookWatson’s Notebook

Watson’s Notes Concerning the

Telephone

Bell in PicturesBell in PicturesEarly Advertisement for AT&T

Original Patent for Bell’s Telephone

Bell’s Original

Drawing For

The

Telephone

The Phone Then and NowThe Phone Then and Now

Can you hear me now?

Henry FordHenry Ford Mass Production Model T in 1908 1913 Continuous

Assembly Line combines: precision

manufacturing division of labor interchangeable parts Affordable and Efficient

Automobile His innovations made him

an international celebrity Changed American

transportation forever

Ford In PicturesFord In Pictures

Ford Assembly Line

1st & 10 Millionth Car

Ford Model TDriving A Model T

Henry Ford racing the 1st Ford Racer

Ford Then and NowFord Then and Now

We’ve come a long way!

Edison and FordEdison and Ford

Great Minds Think AlikeHenry Ford and Thomas Edison friends, colleagues, and

business partners.

Thomas Alva EdisonThomas Alva Edison 1,093 Patents1,093 Patents Tremendous impact on Tremendous impact on

modern lifemodern life Inventor of the Incandescent Inventor of the Incandescent

Lamp in 1878Lamp in 1878 Developed Menlo Park, an Developed Menlo Park, an

invention factoryinvention factory Many interests ranging from Many interests ranging from

recorded sound to motion recorded sound to motion pictures to electricitypictures to electricity

The Incandescent Lamp is his The Incandescent Lamp is his most famous invention.most famous invention.

Edison In PicturesEdison In Pictures

Edison In His Lab

Edison Inventing

Edison’s Factory

Edison Relaxing

Early ad for “Edison Lamp”

Incandescent Lamp and Incandescent Lamp and LightbulbLightbulb

Can You See The Difference?

“Innovation is 1%

inspiration and 99%

perspiration.”

Thomas Edison

Pictures Courtesy Of:Pictures Courtesy Of:

Library of CongressLibrary of Congress American Memory CollectionAmerican Memory Collection The Henry For MuseumThe Henry For Museum AT&TAT&T The US Department of EnergyThe US Department of Energy Inventors.comInventors.com General ElectricGeneral Electric

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