America on the Move: Age of Invention

use of machines to replace hand labor

• mechanization

• mechanical identification

bring electricity to homes and businesses

• electrolysis

• electrification

splitting parts and sharing a job to create a whole product

• assembly line

• instructional assembly

developed the telegraph and a communication code

• Samuel Morse

• Jonathan Moseby

• devele

made the 1st successful airplane flight

• Dodge Brothers

• Wright Brothers

worked with AC/DC electric current

• Nicola Tesla

• Nicholas Nickleby

developed 1st mass-produced auto

• Gerald Ford

• Henry Ford

considered the "father" of the radio

• Guglielmo Marconi

• Robert Fulton

developed picture- and film-making equipment

• Leonard Lineburg

• Louis Lumiere

• developed

Mechanization influenced Henry Ford because he

• began using assembly lines to build automobiles

• formed labor unions to organize his factories