1. Improved Communications

2. Samuel Morse- ________-1844
1870- Western Union formed- numerous companies joined together

4. Telephone 1871- Alexander Graham Bell “talking telegraph”
Increased greatly between 1880 and 1900 (Hayes)

5. Box phone

6. Hand cranked generator (see price?)

7. Thomas Edison Developed a number of uses for electric power Phonograph
Menlo Park, New Jersey ‘invention factory’
Phonograph
Light bulb
Electric plant
Movie camera

8. Goal was to create 10 inventions a week(

9. Edison movie camera

10. Who benefitted from this technology?
Businesses
Consumers
Industry