5.5 Technology in the Industrial Age

Question 1

What did James Watt’s steam engine do?

Answer 1

Created an inexpensive way to use coal to create steam to power machinery in textile mills.

Question 2

What was the effect of coal-powered steam engines on ships and boats?

Answer 2

Ships and boats were no longer dependent on wind for power. Boats on rivers could travel upstream against the current without being towed by people or animals.

Question 3

What were coaling stations?

Answer 3

Stations setup at critical points on trade routes for refueling ships with coal.

Question 4

Coke was a special form of coal used for what?

Answer 4

Refining iron in large furnaces into wrought iron, a form of iron that could be stretched and shaped.

Question 5

What was the second industrial revolution?

Answer 5

Innovations occurring in the late 19th and early 20th centuries involving steel, chemicals, precision machinery and electronics.

Question 6

What was the Bessemer Process

Answer 6

A process allowing the mass production of steel.

Question 7

In the mid-1800s, the first commercial oil wells were drilled, giving the world access to a vast new resource of energy. What was the first fuel produced from oil?

Answer 7

Kerosene

Question 8

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell obtained a patent for what communications technology

Answer 8

A telephone

Question 9

In 1901, Gugliemo Marconi sent (and received) what across the Atlantic Ocean?

Answer 9

A radio signal

Question 10

What was the name of the railroad completed in 1869 that connected the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean in the United States?

Answer 10

Transcontinental Railroad