1. What would your life look like without electricity?
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What would your life look like without electricity?

2. Industrial America 1865–1900 Basic Technologies
United States History
Industrial America
1865–1900
Basic Technologies

3. California State Board of Education Content Standard
Students analyze the relationship among the rise of industrialization, large-scale rural-to-urban migration, and massive immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.
Know the effects of industrialization on living and working conditions, including the portrayal of working conditions and food safety in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.

4. 4 things: power & metal & labor & capital
What Industry Needs
4 things: power & metal & labor & capital

5. Power
1830s: switch from water power to coal.

6. Coal
In 1825, Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal fields produced 390,000 tons. In 1849, 3,800,000 tons. Anthracite coal is almost pure carbon. It is hard to light but burns hot with almost no vapor.

7. Results
1840: Hot blast furnace reduces consumption of fuel in iron production. 1850s: Bessemer process makes possible mass production of steel from pig iron.

8. 1831: companies start making steam locomotives.
Power
1831: companies start making steam locomotives.

9. Power
1879: Edison shows off first incandescent light bulb.