 Define: Assembly line – mass production  Explain inventions/inventors of the late 1800s – impact on American life  Communication – Cyrus Field – Alexander G. Bell  Business – George Eastman – John Thurman – Thomas Edison – George Westinghouse – Lewis Latimer – Henry Ford –

 New inventions helped people communicate more quickly over long distances – unify regions of the country – promoted economic growth. Telegraph – 1844 – Samuel Morse By 1860 Western Union Telegraph Co. had thousands of miles of lines. Order goods – reporters send stories – personal messages Cyrus Field – 1866 – telegraph cable across Atlantic Ocean to Europe Telephone Alexander Graham Bell

Typewriter - Christopher Sholes – 1868 – Adding machine – William Burroughs – 1888 Camera – George Eastman Vacuum cleaner – John Thurman – 1899 Thomas Edison “ Wizard of Menlo Park, N.J. – invented light bulb (1879) Also invented motion picture projector, phonograph, storage battery, designed power plants that could produce electric power

 Transformers – George Westinghouse – 1885 – send electric power over longer distances  African Americans inventors -Lewis Latimer – improved lightbulb filament -Grantville Woods – electromagnetic brake – automatic circuit breaker -Elijah McCoy – mechanism for oiling machinery -Jan Matzeliger – shoe making machine

Henry Ford – auto engine powered by gasoline – started making cars – Model T Used assembly line – each worker assigned task at certain stage of production Mass production – producing large quantities of goods using machinery-assembly line Merchants sell by mail orders – Montgomery Ward – Sears Roebuck – catalogs Chain stores – stores with identical branches in many places F.W. Woolworth – 5 & 10 cents stores Woolworth Building in New York – 792 feet – tallest building in world in 1913.

 List several inventions and inventors of the late 1800s.  Who was known as the Wizard of Menlo Park?  Vocab term that means each worker assigned task at certain stage of production.  Vocab term that means producing large quantities of goods using machinery.  Who was famous for using the above vocab terms in his factory?