Industrialization Industrial Revolution Began in great Britain Many
Industrialization
Industrial Revolution • Began in great Britain • Many people farms to cities to work in factories. • Agriculture could now be massed produced
Changes in Cotton was first massed produced good Eli Whitney- invented cotton gin (separated seeds) James Hargreavesinvented the spinning Jenny James Watt- invented the Steam powered Engine.
New Products • 1870 -1914 - Steel replaced iron. • Steel made lighter, smaller, and faster machines. • Used in railways, ships, and weapons.
Thomas Edison U. S. Inventor who patented the first incandescent light. Formed the Edison Electric Light Company in New York City. *“We will make Electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles. ”
Communications • Alexander Graham Bell- invented the telephone. • Guglielmo Marconi- sent the first radio waves across the Atlantic in 1901.
Other inventions • Street cars and subways powered by electricity emerged in 1880’s. • Internal Combustion Engine- established better ocean liners. • Airplane- Orville and Wilbur Wright flew for the first time in 1903.
Steam Boat • Robert Fulton Invented the Steamboat with paddle wheel • First one called the Clermont
Assembly Line • Made manufacturing more efficient and created mass production. • Used by Henry Ford to effectively and easily make the Model T.
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