1. American Inventions and Innovations

3. Samuel Slater Father of the US Factory System

4. Eli Whitney Cotton Gin

5. Elias Howe Sewing Machine

6. Isaac Singer – Sewing Machine Started the 1 st patent war

8. 1. Railroads

9. All railroad tracks now have a width of 56 1/2 inches (143.5 centimeters) John Stevens Standardized Gauges

10. George Westinghouse Air Brakes

11. George Pullman Sleeping “Palace” Car

12. 2. Steel "Farewell, then, Age of Iron; all hail, King Steel.." Andrew Carnegie

13. Henry Bessemer - BR William Kelly - Am Mass Production of Steel

14. Bessemer Process: a. Heat iron ore to liquid state b. Blast it with hot air which burns out the impurities in iron c. Liquid “steel” is poured out into pre-fabricated forms

15. Andrew Carnegie’s Vertical Integration Monopoly created by owning ALL aspects of production Raw Materials = ore, coke, coal, & manganese Manufacturing = furnaces, mills, railroads Product Distribution = steel

16. Elevator Elisha Otis

17. John Roebling Suspension Bridge 1st in World = London Bridge 1st in US = Brooklyn Bridge

18. Frank Sprague Trolley Car – ran on steel cables Steel cable reel

19. Thomas Edison Light Bulb – used a dynamo (primitive generator)

20. “Black Gold”

21. Edwin Drake Oil Well Pump

22. John D. Rockefeller Horizontal Integration Monopoly by merging and owning competing companies in ONE area of business Raw Materials = petroleum (oil) Manufacturing = Refineries, Pipelines, Tankers Product Distribution = fuel, kerosene, oil, tar

24. S... F.-. B -... M -- O.. R... S... E. Telegraph Machine Language = Morse Code

25. Alexander Graham Bell Telephone

26. "We arrived here at nine o'clock this morning. All well. Thank God, the cable is laid, and is in perfect working order." Cyrus Fields Transatlantic Cable Used telegraph cables to send messages

27. Typewriter Christopher Sholes

28. James Ritty Cash Register Original Model Updated Model

30. Cyrus McCormick - Mechanical Reaper

31. John Deere – Steel Plow

32. Gail Borden Evaporated Milk

33. Henry John Heinz Innovated the technique of preserving food Without canning Famous Product - ketchup

34. An early refrigerator car design, circa 1870. Hatches in the roof provided access to the ice tanks at each end of the car. Gustavus Swift

35. Fannie Farmer Standardized cooking measurements

36. John KelloggWill Kellogg Granola – Dried Flakes

37. C. W. Post Grape Nuts Beginning of Cereal Wars

38. that had an impact on American Life

39. George Eastman Kodak Camera

40. Wilbur and Orville Wright Airplane

41. That’s All Folks! By: Mrs. Martin