The Industrial Revolution Spreads

Chapter 9 Section 1

#1a Bessemer Process• Created a process to purify iron ore and

turn it into STEEL

#1b Alfred Nobel

• Swedish chemist who invented dynamite

#1c Michael Faraday

• English chemist created first simple electric motor DYNAMO

#1d Thomas Edison• American inventor created the light

bulb

#1e Henry Ford

• American manufacturer who first used the assembly line

to make cars

#1f Orville and Wilbur Wright

• American bicycle makers designed and flew first airplane at Kitty hawk, North Carolina.

#1g Guglielmo Marconi

• Italian inventor created the first radio, transmitted Morse code from Great Britain to Canada in 1901

#1h Alfred Krupp

• German businessman who created a monopoly in steel making industry

#2a Dyanmo• A machine

that generates electricity

#2b interchangeable Parts• Identical components that could be used

in place of one another

#2c Assembly Line• Workers add parts to a product that moves

along a belt

#2d Stock• Shares in a company each stockholder in

essence becomes part owner

#2e Corporation• businesses that are owned by many

investors who buy shares

#2f Cartel• A group of large corporations associated

to fix prices, set production quotas, or

• control markets [OPEC]

#3 How did the Industrial Revolution spread in the 1800s?

• A British mechanic opened a factory in Belgium in 1807. Other European countries, as well as the United States and Japan, eventually learned British technology and created their own inventions

#4 How did technology help industry expand?

• Scientists developed new products and technologies. Their achievements included a process fro producing steel, the development of dynamite, and the creation of the dynamo for generating electricity.

#5 How did the need for capital lead to new business methods?

• To raise needed capital, large companies became corporations and sold shares of the business to investors.