The Industrial Revolution Spreads Chapter 9 Section 1

#1a Bessemer Process Created a process to purify iron ore and turn it into STEEL

#1b Alfred Nobel Swedish chemist who invented dynamite

#1c Michael Faraday English chemist created first simple electric motor DYNAMO

#1d Thomas Edison American inventor created the light bulb

American manufacturer who first used the assembly line to make cars #1e Henry Ford American manufacturer who first used the assembly line to make cars

#1f Orville and Wilbur Wright American bicycle makers designed and flew first airplane at Kitty hawk, North Carolina.

#1g Guglielmo Marconi Italian inventor created the first radio, transmitted Morse code from Great Britain to Canada in 1901

#1h Alfred Krupp German businessman who created a monopoly in steel making industry

A machine that generates electricity #2a Dyanmo A machine that generates electricity

#2b interchangeable Parts Identical components that could be used in place of one another

#2c Assembly Line Workers add parts to a product that moves along a belt

#2d Stock Shares in a company each stockholder in essence becomes part owner

#2e Corporation businesses that are owned by many investors who buy shares

#2f Cartel A group of large corporations associated to fix prices, set production quotas, or control markets [OPEC]

#3 How did the Industrial Revolution spread in the 1800s? A British mechanic opened a factory in Belgium in 1807. Other European countries, as well as the United States and Japan, eventually learned British technology and created their own inventions

#4 How did technology help industry expand? Scientists developed new products and technologies. Their achievements included a process fro producing steel, the development of dynamite, and the creation of the dynamo for generating electricity.

#5 How did the need for capital lead to new business methods? To raise needed capital, large companies became corporations and sold shares of the business to investors.