Invention Boom

Bell’s Talking Machine

Bell’s Talking Machine

• Alexander Graham Bell-Scottish born teacher to the deaf

• 1876 he invented the telephone

• Pace of communication and business sped significantly

Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison the Genius

• Invented hundreds of useful things– Light bulb

– Phonograph

– 1st machine for viewing movies

– Power plant

Automobile

Ford’s Automobile

• Ford’s moving assembly line, 1913

• Ford could sell automobiles at a lower price

• Cars started to be made for men only, then women

Wright Brothers

The First Flight

• Orville and Wilbur Wright, bicycle mechanics

• 1903 Orville made his first flight

• No one thought a flying machine was practical at the time