Early Industry and Inventions. Inventors and Famous Inventions.
Objectives: to identify other major industries and name inventions developed and their inventors.
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Transcript of Objectives: to identify other major industries and name inventions developed and their inventors.
Objectives: to identify other major industries and name
inventions developed and their inventors
Cattle ranching grew with the railroads
Meat-packing industry then grew Developed by Philip Armour,
Gustavus Swift and Nelson Morris Led to the creation of a refrigerated
railroad car
Vanderbilt and James Hill were instrumental in constructing new railroads
Created first great railroad system: the New York Central
First to use steel rails, bridges and double tracks
Hill created new settlements to help immigrants along the new railroads
Thomas Edison- had an invention factory, where other inventors could work
Created the first indoor electric light bulb Created the phonograph, which
reproduced sound Alexander Graham Bell- telephone 1876 George Eastman Kodak- 1880 Kodak
camera
Lewis Waterman- 1884 Fountain Pen Ottmar Mergenthaler- 1884 typesetting George Washington Carver- Helped
created equipment for crops Booker T. Washington- started the
Tuskegee Institute Elisha Otis- 1889 elevator Henry Ford- gas powered automobile
engines Horatio Alger- Writer who explained
“rags to riches”