Expansion of Industry Vocabulary

Alexander Graham Bell

• Along with his partner William Cracker, he invented the Graham Cracker

• Developed the world's first cellular phone

• Invented the telephone, which allowed people to talk to each other over long distances and opened the way for worldwide communications network

• Created the Liberty Bell

Christopher Sholes

• He invented the first computer used in business

• He invented the typewriter in 1867 and changed the world of work

• Invented Tik Tok

• He opposed the use of any type of technology used for profit

Lewis H. Latimer

• First man to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame

• He invented Algebra

• He was among the first humans to walk on the moon

• African American inventor who played a crucial role in improving the light bulb using a carbon filament

Thomas Alva Edison

• Invented the first light bulb in 1879

• This man invented the world's first steamship that crossed the world's oceans

• A person who opposed the Vietnam War

• Invented the first computer used by the military

Bessemer Process

• system in which each nation is equal in strength

• A competition between nations

• Cheap and efficient process for making steel, developed around 1850

• A truce or agreement to end hostilities

Edwin L. Drake

• first process for making steel

• First person to successfully use a steam engine to drill for oil

• Invented the first space ship that traveled to the moon and back

• The use of both gold and silver as a basis for money

Inventor of the light bulb, the phonograph and the first electrical power plant:

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• John D Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

Christopher Sholes invented the ___________ in 1868 and changed the way people communicate.

• telephone
• telegraph
• typewriter
• computer

Who invented a quicker and cheaper way to make steel?

• John D. Rockefeller

• Henry Bessemer

• George Pullman

• Nikolaus Otto

Who patented the telephone?

• Henry Bessemer

• George Pullman

• Thomas Alva Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell