6.1 Quiz- The Expansion Industry Flashcards
Factors leading to the industrial boom (3 main reasons)
Abundance of natural resources like timber, iron coal.
Government support of business. Did not step in or interfere. Hands off Laissez faire approach.
Growing urban population. Lot of people were immigrating. They were the ones working in these factories in these industries. But they are also the consumers(purchasing the products)
Black Gold
Oil is black gold
First used by natives for fuel or medicinal properties
Put through a refining process that produces kerosene. Used to light street lamps.
Abraham Gesner
discovered how to distill the fuel from oil or coal
—–>Americans began using kerosene lamps.
Edwin L. Drake
successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania, that removing oil from beneath the earth’s surface became practical
Petroleum_____arose in Cleveland and Pittsburgh as entrepreneurs rushed to transform the oil into kerosene. Gasoline, a byproduct of the refining process, originally was thrown away. But after the automobile became popular, gasoline became the most important form of oil.
Refining Industries
Oil was not the only natural resource that was plentiful in the United States. There were also abundant deposits of ______ and _____
Coal & Iron
Patillo Higgins
Nobody believed oil was in west of the Mississippi but he did
Found oil in Beaumont, Texas
Wrote to John D. Rockefeller, president of standard oil for an investor but he denied.
Has been around for a long period of time but mass production was not possible
steel
Bessemer Process
Made it able to mass produce steel.
Took iron and melted it down. Then injected air which released the impure carbon. Thus creating steel.
Developed independently by the British manufacturer Henry Bessemer and American ironmaker William Kelly around 1850, soon became widely used. This technique involved injecting air into molten iron to remove the carbon and other impurities.
uses fore steel
Railroad
Farming innovations( Joseph Glidden’s barbed wire, John Deere’s farm machines)
Brooklyn Bridge
First skyscraper( wood was too weak internal steel skeletons supported walls)
One of the most remarkable structures was the _______Completed in 1883, it spanned 1,595 feet of the East River in New York City. Its steel cables were supported by towers higher than any man-made and weight-bearing structure except the pyramids of Egypt
Brooklyn Bridge
First skyscraper about 10 stories
William Le Baron Jenney designed the first skyscraper with a steel frame—the _______ in Chicago.
Home Insurance Building
Thomas Alva Edison
Used direct current(electricity) to create incandescent light bulbs
People could work longer hours
He was home schooled
Created Menlo Park (invention business) in NJ
Promised minor invention every 10 days major invention every 6 months
Held more that 1,000 patents at his death
George Westinghouse
Took electricity technology and made it safer to run over longer distances.
Changes to homelife, devices running on electricity(toaster, oven, fridges) etc.
Christopher Sholes
Invented typewriter thus changing the world of work
