1. Chapter 6 A New Industrial Age

2.  Write a list in your binder of your favorite 5 inventions

3.  After the Civil War, America is still an agriculturally based society  By the 1920’s America was in the midst of an industrial explosion  Reasons for the explosion: 1. Wealth of Natural Resources 2. Government support for business 3. Growing urban population

4.  Edwin L. Drake successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, PA  This breakthrough started an oil boom that spread to Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Texas  Petroleum-refining industries arose in Cleveland and Pittsburgh

5.  America also had abundant deposits of coal and iron  1887 prospectors discovered iron ore deposits more than 100 miles long and up to 3 miles wide in the Mesabi Range of Minnesota  All while coal production skyrocketed; 33millon tons in 1870 to more than 250 million tons in 1900

6.  Iron is a dense metal, but it is soft and tends to break and rust; also contains other elements like carbon  Removing the carbon from Iron makes steel  Bessemer process was a cheap and efficient manufacturing process to make steel from iron

7.  Technique involved injecting air into molten iron to remove the carbon and other impurities  Bessemer process was used to make more than 90% of America’s steel

9. Railroads, became the biggest customers for steel

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13.  New inventions affected the very way people lived and worked

14.  Thomas Alva Edison 1. Established the world’s first research lab 2. Perfected the incandescent light bulb 3. Made electricity safer and less expensive with the help of George Westinghouse

15.  Harnessing electricity completely changed the nature of business  Electricity now appears in the workplace and in homes  Allowed for faster urban travel, and manufacturers to locate plants anywhere

16.  Christopher Sholes, typewriter, changed the world of work  Alexander Graham Bell, telephone, created a platform for a global communications network  Both inventions create new jobs