1. Industrialization of America From “Rags to Riches”

2. POWERHOUSE

3. Transformation of America The Second Industrial Revolution

5. The Standard Oil Octopus

6. PUCK magazine The Bosses of the Senate

7. Fueling American Industry Abundance of natural resources Coal Iron ore Oil Water- electricity Timber coal Iron ore oil

8. Drake Strikes Oil Edwin Drake Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company. Drilling for underground oil August 27, 1859 struck oil at 69 feet down. TITUSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA First operating oil well.

9. E L E C T R I C I T Y Thomas Edison George Westinghouse Lewis Latimer

10. Thomas Alva Edison The “Wizard of Menlo Park” Lab at Menlo Park, New Jersey Invention Factory 1,093 patents. Incandescent light bulb. Phonograph Motion picture camera Kinetoscope (peep show viewer) General Electric 1892

11. Electric Lamp

12. George Westinghouse Developed a device called a transformer. The transformer allowed electricity to be efficiently transmitted over long distances. This made it possible to supply electricity to homes and businesses located far from the electric generating plant. Experimented with the use of ALTERNATING CURRENT – AC – which is less expensive and more practical. WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC 1886

13. Lewis Latimer Worked with Edison Patented improvements to light bulb.

14. COMMUNICATIONS Prior to 1840s, messages had to be delivered by post riders and Pony Express.

15. T E L E G R A P H

16. Samuel Morse Morse Code -1844

17. W E S T E R N U N I O N

18. Transatlantic Telegraph Cable

19. T E L E P H O N E Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson “Talking Telegraph” “Mr. Watson, please come here. I want you.” BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY - 1877

20. Bell’s Patent

21. Imagined Uses of the Telephone, from "What Science May Do For Us," Life. 5:121 (April 23, 1885). 232-233. "The Preacher of the Near Future Conducting Service a la Telephone"

22. Imagined Uses of the Telephone, from "What Science May Do For Us," Life. 5:121 (April 23, 1885). 232-233. "The Wife of the Bosom Could Attend Service and Prepare the Dinner"

23. Imagined Uses of the Telephone, from "What Science May Do For Us," Life. 5:121 (April 23, 1885). 232-233. "How My Puritan Ancestors would have 'caught on' to this"

24. Imagined Uses of the Telephone, from "What Science May Do For Us," Life. 5:121 (April 23, 1885). 232-233. "No Going to Church Without Your Breakfast"

25. S T E E L Turning Iron Ore into S T E E L The Bessemer Process HENRY BESSEMER & WILLIAM KELLY

26. The Bessemer Process

28. S T E E L Key uses. Railroad track Skyscrapers

29. S T E E L Steel Suspension Bridges Brooklyn Bridge

30. Fueling American Industry Abundant labor force

31. Impact of the RAILROADS Railroad building and the railroad network transformed the nation’s economy. Helped industry and agriculture prosper.

32. The TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD

33. Transcontinental Railroad Pacific Railway Act of 1862 Union Pacific Railroad Central Pacific Railroad

34. Transcontinental Railroad UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD Began construction from Omaha, Nebraska Used many Irish immigrants in labor force

35. Transcontinental Railroad CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD Began construction from Sacramento, California Used many Chinese immigrants on labor force

36. TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD Completed on May 10, 1869 Union Pacific and Central Pacific met at Promontory Point in Utah

37. The Golden Spike Ceremony

38. Leland Stanford drives in the final spike. * “The Last Spike” (1881) by Thomas Hill

40. Railroad Land Grants

41. Railroad Network by 1880