Chapter 6 1 The Expansion of Industry Main

Chapter 6 -1 The Expansion of Industry

• Main Idea: At the end of the th 19 century, natural resources, creative ideas, and growing markets fueled an industrial boom.

I. Natural Resources Fuel Industrialization – US had been agricultural nation after Civil War. By the 1920’s it was the industrial power A. Black Gold=oil. 1. 1859 Edwin L. Drake uses steam engine to drill for oil. Leads to an oil boom in KY, OH, IL, IN. 2. Cleveland Pittsburgh refining centers

B. Bessemer Steel Process – Coal and iron also abundant; they make steel 2. Coal production 3. Iron-heavy and tends to break and rust; needed cheap and efficient way to manufacture 4. Bessemer Process-removed carbon from iron to make it into steel

C. New Uses for Steel 1. Railroads biggest users. Also barbed wire, farm machines 2. Innovative Construction 3. 1883 -Brooklyn Bridge, 1, 595 feet 4. First skyscraper with a steel frame. Home Insurance Building in Chicago. • Weight is not issue, so the sky is the limit

II. Inventions Promote Change • The Power of Electricity 1. 1876 -Thomas Alva Edison establishes first research laboratory in Menlo Park, NJ a. Incandescent Light Bulb 2. Electricity Runs machines, homes. 3. Leads to new appliances 4. Electric Streetcar 5. Manufacturers can locate plants anywhere

Short Edison Video During Video, write down 3 main ideas/interesting things about Edison

B. Inspired Inventions 1. 1867 Christopher Sholes-typewriter 2. 1876 Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson invent telephone

C. New Products=New Lifestyles 1. Everyday lives change 2. Office work and new jobs for women 4. Phonographs, 3. Improved bicycles, standard of living. cameras provide for recreation