Why is the 2 nd Industrial Revolution so important to the creation of the United States? 5-10 sentences.
Feb 11, 2016
Why is the 2nd Industrial Revolution so important to the creation of the United States? 5-10 sentences.
What is an Industrial Revolution? What are we changing? How does this change effect the
United States? Men Women Children Immigrants Minorities
The key principle is removal of impurities from the iron by oxidation through air being blown through the molten iron. The oxidation also raises the temperature of the iron mass and keeps it molten.
Henry Bessemer
George Westinghouse founded Union Switch & Signal, abbreviated (US&S), in 1881, consolidating the assets of companies that had pioneered closed track circuits and interlockings. Operating as an independent company until 1917, US&S became a subsidiary of Westinghouse Air Brake.
He used his money and success to develop a comfortable railroad sleeping car, the Pullman sleeper, or "palace car."
An American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and a long lasting light bulb.
The German inventor of the internal-combustion engine, the first engine to efficiently burn fuel directly in a piston chamber.
His research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing devices that eventually culminated in the invention of the telephone.
George Westinghouse
George Pullman Thomas Alva
Edison Nikolaus
August Otto Alexander
Graham Bell
Pittsburgh is the birthplace of many of the inventions and inventors you’ve studied today. List the different places that have been named after the men or inventions we’ve discussed.
Business that is free from government involvement
Business that is free from government involvement
Gave way to EntrepreneursPeople who start a new business
Business that is free from government involvement
Gave way to EntrepreneursPeople who start a new business
Entrepreneurs created Corporations
Companies that sell shares of ownership called stocks
Improve efficiency by making supplies reliable
Control quality of product
Eliminate middleman fees
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Pizza Outlet
Control rivals Created trusts Cycle of buying
competing company, Improve the efficiency
of operations Pressing for discounts
on shipments,THUS… Undercutting his
competition AND Buying them out
Carnegie Rockefeller J.P. Morgan Vanderbilt How did they build their fortunes?