Ch.14 Flashcards
Factors in the US for the Industrial Age
Wealth and Natural Resources Government Support of Business Growing Urban Population Cheap Labor Market for New Products
Used a steam engine to drill for oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania
Edwin Drake
British inventor that came up with a new way to make steel
Henry Bessemmer
American who discovered a way to produce higher quality steel in a less expensive manner
William Kelly
Began building the Brooklyn Bridge
John Roebling
Why was william jenny able to build skyscrapers
the use of steel beams allowed great structural integrate and support
Created the first research labratory
Thomas Edison
Invented the air brake
George Westinghouse
invented the type writer
christopher sholes
invented the adding machine
William buroughs
Tellaphone and xray machone
Alexander Graham Bell
the golden spike was driven in the ground here to mark completetions of first continental railrods
Promontory Point, Utah
created the 24 time zones around the world
C.F Dowd
4 time zones
Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific
Built luxury train cars and built his own factory town for his workers
George Pullman