Life in the Industrial Age The Industrial Revolution

Life in the Industrial Age The Industrial Revolution Spreads

Spread of the Industrial Revolution • Started in Britain • Laws limiting the emigration of inventors helped Britain maintain it lead • Eventually Belgium, Germany, France, and the United States copied British technology • France, Germany, and the United States industrialized quickly because of their natural resources • Japan, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand also industrialized

Limits to the Spread • Southern Europe lacked natural resources • Eastern Europe was slowed by its social and political conditions

Using Chapter 22 Section 1 identify each of the following: • • • 2 Innovations in Production 3 Chemical Inventions 2 Innovations in Electricity 4 Inventions in Transportation 3 Communication Inventions 4 Innovations in Business

New Inventions

Innovations in Production • Interchangeable Parts • Assembly Line • Steel – Henry Bessemer

Chemical Inventions • Aspirin • Margarine • Dynamite – Alfred Noble

Innovations with Electricity • Battery – Alessandro Volta • Light Bulb – Thomas Edison

Transportation Inventions • Railroad Expansion • Gasoline Powered Internal Combustion Engine – Nikolaus Otto • Automobile – Gottlieb Daimler • Airplane – Orville and Wilbur Wright

Communication Inventions • Telegraph – Samuel Morse • Telephone – Alexander Graham Bell • Radio – Guglielmo Marconi

Innovations in Business • Corporation • Monopoly • Trust • Cartel

Innovations in Business • Corporation – business owned by many people (stock holders) • Monopoly – one company that controlled an entire industry • Trust – a group of companies that work together to reduce competition and control prices • Cartel – a loosely organized group of companies that fix prices, set quotas and divide up the market

Questions to answer • How did science help industry expand? – Give 3 examples How did the need for capital lead to new ways of organizing business? Which 3 technological advances discussed do you think were the most important? Explain