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• 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