THE EXPANSION OF INDUSTRY AND RAILROADS A New Industrial Age

Industrialization Industrialization was 1 st seen in England in the late 1700s  It eventually spread to America in the mid 1800s

What Did Industrialization in America Involve? A boom in the oil industry  1859-Edwin L Drake drilled for oil in Pennsylvania  Started the 1 st commercial oil well oil boom Boom spreads  Boom leads to:  Petroleum-refining industries Used to transform oil into Kerosene Gasoline (byproduct of refining process) becomes important with the rise of the automobile

What Did Industrialization in America Involve? Rises in the production of steel  Advances in technology allowed steel to be produced faster and cheaper Bessemer process Developed by Henry Bessemer and William Kelly Technique that removed impurities from iron to make steel  Steel made the US into a modern industrial economy It was used to make: Railroads and trains, bigger bridges, taller buildings, more manufactured goods etc.

What Did Industrialization in America Involve? Change through inventions  1867-Christopher Sholes  Invented the typewriter  1876-Alexander Graham Bell / Thomas Watson  Invented the telephone  1880 – Thomas Edison  Invented the light bulb  Later invented entire system for producing / distributing electrical power

What Did Industrialization in America Involve? The Factory System  What is a factory?  It is where land, labor and capital are brought together  It is where natural resources are continually being produced into finished products

What Did Industrialization in America Involve? The Age of the Railroads  Between 1865 and 1890, the # of miles of railroad track jumped close to six-fold!  Significance of the Railroad: Created a national network (via the transcontinental railroad) National network national market national economy Fueled development of standardized time zones Proposed by Professor C. F Dowd

It presented us with consumer goods in a materialistic society It created an abundance of things It launched America on the world stage It has made us (America) into who we are Significance of Industrialization