1. A New Industrial Revolution
Chapter 18 – section 1

2. Essential Question Group Time!
Industrialization increased the standard of living and the opportunities of most Americans, but at what cost?

3. Causes of Rapid Industrialization
1. Steam Revolution of the 1830s-1850s.
2. The Railroad fueled the growing US economy:
First big business in the US.
A magnet for financial investment.
The key to opening the West.
Aided the development of other industries.
3. Government policy favored industrial growth:
subsidies to railroads
Kept high tariffs on imports encouraging Americans buy American goods

4. Causes of Rapid Industrialization
4. Technological innovations.
1850’s Bessemer process made steel stronger and cheaper
Refrigerated cars
Edison
Known as the “Wizard of Menlo Park”
light bulb, phonograph, motion pictures.

5. Causes of Rapid Industrialization
5. Unskilled & semi-skilled labor in abundance.
6. Abundant capital.
7. New, talented group of businessmen [entrepreneurs] and advisors.
8. Market growing as US population increased.
9. Abundant natural resources.

6. U. S. Patents Granted 1790s  276 patents issued.
A patent is document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention

7. Thomas Alva Edison
“Wizard of Menlo Park”

8. The Light Bulb
The nation’s first electrical power plant in New York City

9. The Phonograph (1877)

10. The Ediphone or Dictaphone

11. The Motion Picture Camera

12. Most valuable patent ever issued
Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone (1876)
Most valuable patent ever issued

13. Alternate Current
George Westinghouse

14. Alternate Current
Westinghouse Lamp ad

15. Devices for home and Office
1868 Christopher Sholes invented a letter writing device called the “Type-Writer”
Office workers could now crank out letters at a much faster rate than before.

16. George Eastman
The Kodak camera was invented in 1888 making it possible for everyone to be able to afford to take their own pictures

17. Model T Automobile
Did not make the first automobile!
Did make it more affordable to the masses with the introduction of the assembly line in 1913!
The assemble line changed everything
From 14 hours to produce 1 car,
to one car every 1 ½ hours!
Henry Ford I want to pay my workers so that they can afford my product!

18. The Reorganization of Work
The Assembly Line

19. “Model T” Prices & Sales

20. The Airplane Wilbur Wright Orville Wright
Tested a gas powered plane
First flight stayed in the air for 12 seconds
Four flights made that day, one for 59 seconds
Wilbur Wright Orville Wright
Nobody really cared until WWI when militaries began to use it
Kitty Hawk, NC – December 17, 1903