5.5

Question 1

Technology

Steam Engine

Answer 1

- James Watt
- Inexpensive way to harness coal power to make steam -> generated energy for machinary
Effects:
-In 50 years, Steam was used to proudce power for steam powered trains

Question 2

Water transportation

Steam Engine

effects for water transportation

Answer 2

Advantages:
- could be build anywhere
- engines could be turned on and off
Effects:
- Sailors didn’t need to rely on winds anymore
- could travel upstream fast, without needing to push boat up
- Coaling Stations: used to refuel coal ex: Cape Colony in South Africa

Question 3

Fuel

Coal

Answer 3

• Used to provide fuel for machines (ex: Steam Engine)
• Helped with the mass production of Iron
• Coke: refined version of coal used to produce larger amounts of iron

Question 4

Revolution

Second Industrial Revolution

late 1900s- 2000s

Answer 4

• Developments in: Steel, chemicals, precision machinery, electronics
• Main Contributers: U.S, Britain, Germany

Question 5

Metal

Steel

1800s-1900s

Answer 5

• Alloy (combination) of Iron and Carbon
• Bessemer Process 1856 : process where you blast molten iron with air
  Effects:
• Fast production of steel

Question 6

Oil

mid 1800s-

Answer 6

• Petroleum: fossil fuel
• Kerosene: from Petroleum, used for lighting and heaters
• 1847, Inventors made chemical techinques to extract Kerosen from Petroleum
  Effects:
• developments of precision machinery
• internal combustion engine –> airplanes automobiles

Question 7

Electricity

1880s-90s

Answer 7

• 1882 London Public power station began production
  Effects:
• Electricfication –> street lighting, electric street trains in late 1800s
• contributed to the development of communication tech.

Question 8

Inventor

Alexander Graham Bell

1876

Answer 8

• Invented the first telephone woahh

Question 9

Gugliemo Marconi

1901

Answer 9

• Italian Physicists who invented the first radio
• 1901, sent and recived a signal across the Altantic Ocean

Question 10

Capital

Answer 10

• Money available to invest in a business

Question 11

Transcontinental Railroad

completed on: 1869

Answer 11

• Connected Atlantc and Pacific Ocean together
  Effects:
• facilitated U.S’s growth
• U.S goods (ex: coal, iron, oil) could be transfered more efficiently