• The Industrial Revolution started with the textile industry.

• IR quickly spread into other industries.

• New industries were rapidly created.

Transportation.• As goods were being produced faster,

need to get goods to market faster.

• Also, a need to get resources to factories quickly.

• New transportation began on the rivers with Steamboats.– First steamboat created by Robert Fulton.– Built in 1808, called the Claremont.

• Steamboats led to oceangoing steamships.

Robert Fulton

The Claremont

• Steam power was quickly adopted for overland travel.

• First train built by George Stephenson in 1814.– Top speed – 30 mph.

• Trains quickly improved to carry cargo and passengers.

George Stephenson

• Later came the Internal Combustion Engine.– Led to automobiles and airplanes.

• First engine builders:– Germany – Gottlieb Daimler, Karl Benz.– France – Etienne Lenoir.– USA – Frank Duryea.

Gottlieb Daimler

Karl Benz

Etienne Lenoir

Frank Duryea

Duryea’s race car

Early Internal Combustion Engine

Early Auto

World’s Largest Internal Combustion Engine

Stanley Steamer – Steam-powered automobile

Duesenberg – Consideredthe nicest car of 1920’s &1930’s.

1957 Chevrolet

1975 Ford

• Orville and Wilbur Wright created the first heavier-than-air aircraft.

• Powered by an internal combustion engine.

• Flew at Kitty Hawk, South Carolina.

Orville and Wilbur Wright

Electricity and Communication• Electricity completely changed the IR.

• Michael Faraday learned how to create electricity.– Built the first dynamo, or generator.

• Thomas Edison built the first storage battery and lightbulb.

• Edison’s Alternating Current (AC) electrical system was used to electrify America.

Michael Faraday

Faraday’s dynamo

Thomas Edison

Edison’s lightbulb

Texas Electric Chair Florida Electric Chair

• Samuel Morse built the telegraph.– Machine that sent electrical impulses down a

wire.– Created a language called Morse Code.

• Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.– Used electricity and diaphragms to send

sound down wires.

• Marconi learned to send electrical messages without wires.– Called Wireless Communication.

Samuel Morse

Alexander Graham Bell

Gugilemo Marconi

Steel• Steel was expensive and of poor quality.

• Henry Bessemer invented the Bessemer Process.– Blow superheated air through liquid steel to

remove impurities and mix steel.

• Steel became the primary construction material.– Cheaper, stronger, lighter, more flexible,

easier to work than iron.

Henry Bessemer