TUESDAY -Reminder: Industrial test Friday -Reminder: Industrial key-terms due Friday – do it right! -Current events -Notes: “Inventions Change the Nation” How do the revolutionary ideas of then affect us now? -Activity: is an assembly line any better?... -Daily Reader

Inventions Change the Nation Patents: Licenses for new inventions Telegraph (helps orders & cross-country communication) within the U.S. Communication across the Atlantic are HUGE! Samuel Morse invented this bad boy in the 1830s. Using dots & dashes known as MORSE CODE, he could send electric signals over wires indicating words & letters of our alphabet

Cyrus Field – lays a cable under the ocean so telegraph messages can go back & forth b/w N. American & Europe Inventions Change the Nation

-1858 Queen Victoria sends first transatlantic message -Transatlantic: across the Atlantic message to President James Buchanan in D.C. Inventions Change the Nation “In 5 months the cable had been manufactured, shipping stretched across the Atlantic & was sending messages swift as lightning from continent to continent”

Alexander Graham Bell Telephone – Many thought it was just a toy -Tries to sell it to Western Union Telegraph Co. for $100,000 -They don’t want it (oops!) -Bell ends up making millions

Alexander Graham Bell Bell forms Bell Telephone Co : 1877 » No longer need to go to telegraph office » In-home communication » Businesses can find best deal quickly » Orders can be placed quickly

Thomas Edison – 1876 – opens research lab in Menlo Park, NJ – Set the goal of inventing something new every 10 days The Golden Approach – Edison’s approach of turning inventing into a system – “Genius is 1% inspiration & 99% perspiration” What do we remember about him???

Thomas Edison Light bulb Phonograph Motion Picture Projector & Silent film auditoriums

Thomas Edison Electric Power Plant NY City Wires business district first NY City Wires business district first Electric factories replace steam powered engines Electric factories replace steam powered engines Safer, quieter, cleaner Safer, quieter, cleaner Modern era of electricity begins Modern era of electricity begins

Technology Takes Command Refrigerated Railroad Car Refrigeration to the meatpacking industry – Before: cattle, pigs, chickens raised/ sold locally (spoiled, couldn't ship far) Meatpacking plant in Chicago – (hub ½ way between cattle ranches in West & cities in the East) Cattle is shipped by train to Chicago Slaughtered & carved up into sides of beef then loaded onto refrigerated cars & carried to market

– Typewriter – speeds communication Lightweight Cheap Easy to use Technology Takes Command !!!FUN FACT!!! Our keyboards (then & now) are called “qwerty keyboards”… WHY?..... Less type-jams! It was so great we kept it!

First Flight – Orville & Wilbur Wright (bike mechanics) – 1903 – “Flying Machine” in Kitty Hawk, NC 1908 U.S. military shows interest – Flight over battlefields (bird’s eye view) – Gain enemy positions – 40mph plane WOAH

Automobiles – Europeans had produced motorized vehicles in 1860s (France = leader & only rich Americans could afford cars) – Ford 1913 – moving assembly line: method of production by which workers stay in one place as products travel past on a moving belt + more jobs, less skill needed, better economy - if one person messed up, the whole process gets messed up

Automobiles At first people thought cars were dangerous & scared horses “No Horseless Carriages Allowed” signs Tennessee: person planning to drive a car had to advertise the fact a week ahead of time – BUT…prices dropped & people started buying them up – Men AND WOMEN can now drive!!!!….significance?

Mass Production: making large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply – Allows Ford to sell his cars at a MUCH lower price than other automakers – BUT…. Is an assembly line FASTER and BETTER? Automobiles

Let’s Test it Out!!!! I will put you into a group… You will get a specific mission, depending on who you are & what group you’re in Check your group folder to see what your task is ARE ASSEMBLY LINES MORE EFFICIENT? -You want to do your BEST at your task! -Poor work leads to UNEMPLOYMENT! -You are selling a product based on QUALITY! -Keep your factory/ workplace NEAT & tidy!

Wrapping Up You can start now… FOR HOMEWORK DUE TOMORROW: – Write ONE PARAGRAPH ( 5 sentences) in Morse code using your key on the back of your notes – It can be a note to a specific friend in class… – It can be a general note for anyone in class… – It can be song lyrics… – It can be a poem… – It can be ANYTHING (as long as it’s appropriate)