Word Splash Connect the following terms and put

Word Splash Connect the following terms and put them into a sentence or phrase… Standard Oil, Carnegie Steel, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, Railroad Industry

Technology Today Give me some examples and explain how technology has had a positive or negative impact on your life.

Inventions Change the Nation 20 -3 http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Jcn. XOhrm. DB 8

Speeding Up Communication Cyrus Field- the transatlantic cable Allowed for telegraph communication across the Atlantic Ocean • Linking Europe with the U. S.

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Alexander Graham Bell Invented the telephone in 1876

DO NOT WRITE! How far we’ve come! “An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one? ” President This Rutherford B. Hayes (1877 -1881) invention would drastically increase the speed at which business was done.

“The Wizard of Menlo Park” Most notable- the light bulb and the phonograph He opened a workshop in Menlo Park, NJ Believed in working with other inventors http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=o. GE--9 Cp 4 t. U

“Wizard of Menlo Park”- famous nickname Over 1, 000 patents in his career

Other notable inventions… Refrigerated Railcar- greatly helped the meatpacking industry Christopher Sholes- typewriter George Eastman- Kodak camera Elijah Mc. Coy- device that automatically oiled engines

Henry Ford Rolled out the first Model-T in 1908 Model T was the first affordable car for the American public Made famous the moving assembly line which allows for much quicker mass production

Automobiles In 1900, only 8, 000 Americans owned cars. By 1917, more than 4. 5 million Cars went from being an unnecessary luxury, to an affordable and practical machine

First Flight Orville and Wilbur Wright developed one of the first working airplanes. 1903 Kitty Hawk, NC 12 seconds in the air 120 feet in distance Many people thought this was a useless invention at the time!

Ticket Out List and explain 3 new inventions and their inventors that you learned about today. Drop on the back table on your way out.