1. Inventions and other major U.S. Industries
Objectives: to identify other major industries and name inventions developed and their inventors

2. Major Industries Cattle ranching grew with the railroads
Meat-packing industry then grew
Developed by Philip Armour, Gustavus Swift and Nelson Morris
Led to the creation of a refrigerated railroad car

3. Meatpacking plant 1905

4. New Railroads
Vanderbilt and James Hill were instrumental in constructing new railroads
Created first great railroad system: the New York Central
First to use steel rails, bridges and double tracks
Hill created new settlements to help immigrants along the new railroads

5. New York Central Certificate

6. Other Inventions
Thomas Edison- had an invention factory, where other inventors could work
Created the first indoor electric light bulb
Created the phonograph, which reproduced sound
Alexander Graham Bell- telephone 1876
George Eastman Kodak Kodak camera

7. Other Inventions Lewis Waterman- 1884 Fountain Pen
Ottmar Mergenthaler typesetting
George Washington Carver- Helped created equipment for crops
Booker T. Washington- started the Tuskegee Institute
Elisha Otis elevator
Henry Ford- gas powered automobile engines
Horatio Alger- Writer who explained “rags to riches”