THE EXPANSION OF INDUSTRY

1. Which Resources played crucial roles in industrialization? Crude Oil Iron Ore Coal

Used a steam engine to extract oil from beneath the earth 2. How did Edwin Drake help industry to acquire larger quantities of oil? Used a steam engine to extract oil from beneath the earth

3. How did the Bessemer process allow better use of iron ore? Cheap, efficient way to make steel from iron ore

4. What new uses for steel were developed at this time? Railroads Barbed Wire Farm Machines Canned Food Bridges Skyscrapers

5. How did Thomas Edison contribute to this development? Research Lab Light Bulb (perfected) System for producing and distributing Power

6. How did George Westinghouse contribute to it? Made Electricity Safer and more efficient Encouraged Science to explore electricity

7/8. How did Christopher Sholes and Alexander Graham Bell contribute? Both opened many employment opportunities for women. Typewriter Telephone