1. American History Chapter 14-4
The Age of Invention

2. Transportation Improvements
Cities needed ways to transport people farther.
Mass transit: Public transportation that move large numbers of people w/regular stops.
Streetcars: Early ones were horse-drawn.
San Francisco built cable car lines powered by steam.
Quickly replaced with electric trolleys.
Subways: 1st subway built in Boston, Ma. 1897

3. Subways

4. Automobiles
German, Nikolaus Otto, invented the internal combustion engine, 1867.
1893 Charles & Frank Duryea built the first practical motorcar in the U.S.
$2500 price tag made it for the wealthy only.

5. Airplanes
1903 Orville & Wilbur Wright accomplished the first true flight in an airplane.
Took place at Kitty Hawk, NC – lasted 12 seconds.

6. Communications Improvements
Telegraph: Sent messages over wire via electricity.
Invented in 1837 by Samuel Morse.
Telephone: Transmitted voices via electricity.
1st patented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell.
Typewriter: A writing machine.
Invented in 1867 by Christopher Sholes in Milwaukee, Wi.
Designed the QWERTY keyboard.

7. Inventors & Their Machines
Bell
Morse
Sholes

8. Electricity Thomas Edison: 1876 Opened a research lab in NJ.
“ Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.”
Failure was as valuable to Edison as success.
Invented an incandescent bulb.
Designed & produced all parts necessary for an electric network.
Designed and built his own electric plant.

9. Put a spark in your life.