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THE EXPANSION OF INDUSTRY

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1 THE EXPANSION OF INDUSTRY

2 1. Which Resources played crucial roles in industrialization?
Crude Oil Iron Ore Coal

3 Used a steam engine to extract oil from beneath the earth
2. How did Edwin Drake help industry to acquire larger quantities of oil? Used a steam engine to extract oil from beneath the earth

4 3. How did the Bessemer process allow better use of iron ore?
Cheap, efficient way to make steel from iron ore

5 4. What new uses for steel were developed at this time?
Railroads Barbed Wire Farm Machines Canned Food Bridges Skyscrapers

6 5. How did Thomas Edison contribute to this development?
Research Lab Light Bulb (perfected) System for producing and distributing Power

7 6. How did George Westinghouse contribute to it?
Made Electricity Safer and more efficient Encouraged Science to explore electricity

8 7/8. How did Christopher Sholes and Alexander Graham Bell contribute?
Both opened many employment opportunities for women. Typewriter Telephone


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