HIPPOO Bell Work Intended Audience? Purpose?

CPUSH 3 November 2015 To Do: -Bell Work: 11/6 (Friday) -Invention/Perfection Project: 11/9 (Monday) -Annotated Bibliography 5 Secondary Sources: 11/13 (Friday) EQ: What are the ingredients to an industrial boom? Agenda: -HIPPOO Bell Work -Expansion of American Industry Notes You will need 1 piece(s) of paper

Expansion of American Industry Costs and Benefits of Growth

Ingredients of an Industrial boom ■ Natural resources ❑ Coal ❑ Oil ❑ Iron ore ❑ Timber

The Bessemer Steel Process (1850) ■ Process for removing the carbon in Iron making it stronger, more flexible and rust resistant. ■ Allows for use of steel in ❑ Railroads ❑ Barbed wire ❑ Farm equipment ❑ Bridges ❑ Steel framed buildings = first “skyscrapers” Bessemer converter, Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield, England (2002).

Innovation and invention alters lifestyles ■ Electricity ❑ 1880 new longer lasting light bulb patented by Thomas Edison ❑ How does the harnessing of electricity change peoples daily lives at home and work? ■ Telephone ❑ Makes its debut in 1876 ❑ Bell and Watson credited with its success ❑ Vast distances and time that used to separate people were now overcome

Alexander Graham Bell makes the ceremonial call to open telephone service between New York and Chicago, Oct. 18, Thomas Edison presented his first light bulb in 1879 (U.S. Patent 223,898 - there were many disputes about this*) and it's been improved upon and made more efficient ever since.

Ingredients of an Industrial boom ■ Government Support for Big Business

Ingredients of an Industrial boom ■ Growing Population = Markets and Cheap Labor

Pros and Cons of Growth ■ What benefits do people gain from all of this growth? ■ What price must be paid in the process?

Invention/Perfection Project ■Over the next 3 days in class, you will work with your team (Poles, Germans, Chinese, etc.): ❑ Create an invention or a perfection ■Must have drawing of invention/perfection OR model of invention/perfection (30%) ■Must have written essay (30%) ❑ Typed, double spaced, Times New Roman, 12 point font ■Must have commercial (40%) ❑ No more than a minute, no less than thirty seconds