Invention #1 • Sewing Machine • Elias Howe • Revolutionized the clothing industry and people began to buy their own clothes instead of making them.
Feb 09, 2016
Invention #1
• Sewing Machine• Elias Howe• Revolutionized the
clothing industry and people began to buy their own clothes instead of making them.
Invention #2
• Electricity• Thomas Edison• Did not invent
electricity or a light bulb• Invented a practical way
to use electricity for light in your house
• Gas was used up until this point
Invention #3
• Telephone• Alexander Graham Bell• It was an accident when
he was fiddling with a transmitter after he spilled acid on himself
Industry #1
• Oil Industry• John D. Rockefeller• Rockefeller put his
competitors out of business by buying all of the oil businesses.
• Rockefeller created a monopoly in the oil industry.
Industry #2
• Steel Industry• Andrew Carnegie• Carnegie tried to beat
his competition by making the best and cheapest product.
• Sold his company to J.P. Morgan, the nation’s top banker, for $480 million.