1. The Expansion of Industry

2. What are we studying today?

3. Terms & Names •Edwin L. Drake •Bessemer process •Thomas Alva Edison
•Christopher Sholes
•Alexander Graham Bell

4. A PERSONAL VOICE PATTILLO HIGGINS
“ Captain Lucas, these experts come and tell you this or that can’t happen because it has never happened before. You believe there is oil here, and I think you are right. I know there is oil here in greater quantities than man has ever found before.”
—quoted in Spindletop

5. What is kerosene used for early on?

6. How did Edwin Drake lower the costs of drilling?

7. What improvement does the Bessemer process do?

8. What are two major construction projects made with steel?

9. Why is Thomas Edison important?

10. What enabled industry to grow?

11. Christopher Sholes and Alexander Bell develop?

12. How does industrialization help workers?