Industrialization in the U.S.

Question 1

Invention

Answer 1

a device, object, or idea that has been created for the first time

Question 2

Innovation

Answer 2

an invention that causes change in human behaviors. interactions, or companies

Question 3

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 3

Irish immigrant, revolutionized the steel industry

Question 4

Bessemer Process

Answer 4

a steel-making process used by Carnegie; carbon, silicon, etc. are removed by blasting compressed air into molten iron

Question 5

Vertical Integration

Answer 5

a business strategy to control all aspects of manufacturing of the product; used by Carnegie

Question 6

Horizontal Integration

Answer 6

a business strategy to reduce and control competition in your specific industry; Rockefeller used this

Question 7

John D. Rockefeller

Answer 7

business man who revolutionized the oil industry

Question 8

Thomas Edison

Answer 8

improved the telegraph operator, created the phonograph, practical electric lighting system and motion picture equipment

Question 9

Phonograph

Answer 9

first machine to capture sound & play it back

Question 10

Electrical Lighting System

Answer 10

first practical electric light system of the incandescent light bulb

Question 11

Nicola Tesla

Answer 11

made the Direct Current electrical system; worked for Edison

Question 12

Henry Ford

Answer 12

began tinkering with automobiles in the late 1890s, founded the Ford car company

Question 13

Moving Assembly Line

Answer 13

Mass manufacturing technique by Ford in his automobile production

Question 14

Model T

Answer 14

First important car ever built, average American can now get a car

Question 15

The Wright Brothers

Answer 15

Bicycle manufacturers, became interested in the science & principles of flight and aviation

Question 16

1903 Wright Flyer

Answer 16

Dec 7th, 1903. Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane