1. Technology and Industrialization
Key Inventions
Technology and Industrialization

2. Transatlantic Cable (Telegraph) 1866 First Successful One
Facilitated transatlantic trade
News spread very quickly
Made people aware of time differences

3. Alexander Graham Bell and his Phone (not a cell phone)
Bell Telephone Company in 1877
300,000 phones by 1885
Pace of business accelerates
Men begin unsuccessful attempts to get women’s phone numbers

4. The “Wizard” of Menlo Park
1093 patents
Invention as a business
Light bulb, phonograph, movies, and…
Electric power plant

5. Refrigerated Railroad Car
Don’t have to ship whole animal, which means…
More space
Less poop

6. Meatpacking Industry in the Midwest

7. The Typewriter

8. The Kodak Camera 1888 New, lightweight camera Not digital
Mr. Joseph on vacation, 1888

9. Elijah McCoy’s Automatic Lubricator
Used on railroad engines and in factories
Lead to the phrase “The Real McCoy”

10. Jan Matzeliger’s Shoemaking Machine 1883
Mechanized shoe making

11. Surprise, Surprise Blacks had a tough time getting patents
But many of them did anyway

12. The Moving Assembly Line
Took idea of assembly line and added…
A conveyor belt

13. Cars for the People Car buying goes up in the 1910’s
It soars in the 1920’s
The Ford Model T

14. The Wright Brothers Looked at the design of birds for inspiration
Flew for 59 seconds in 1903
Plane significant in WWI
Plane travel by late 20s/early 30s