Chapter 9 Section 1 The Industrial Revolution Spreads 3 rd Period October 13 th, 2011.
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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.