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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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