Module 20 - The Industrial Age Vocabulary

A period of rapid growth in US manufacturing in the late 1800s

• Second Industrial Revolution

• First Industrial Revolution

• Boom Towns

• Age of Exploration

A way to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply by blasting hot air through melted iron to quickly remove impurities

• moving assembly line

• Interchangeable parts

• Bessemer process

• Oil refinery process

This inventor helped create several important inventions such as the electric light bulb.

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• John D Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

Exclusive rights to make or sell inventions

• Contract

• moving assembly line

• Bessemer process

• patent

This inventor patented the telephone in 1876

• Thomas Edison

• Henry Ford

• Alexander Graham Bell

• The Wright Brothers

This entrepreneur aimed to make "a motor car for the great multitude" and introduced the Model T in 1908

• Henry Ford

• Bill Gates

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

An innovation of Henry Ford's that dramatically reduced the cost of production

• The bessemer process

• The Ferris wheel

• The moving assembly line

• The water powered mill

These brothers invented the first power-driven airplane in 1903

• Wilbur and Orville Wright

• Charles and Stanley Wesley

• William and Clarence Thomas

• Wilbur and Charles Darwin

Businesses that sell portions of ownership called stock shares

• corporations

• cooperative organizations

• credit unions

• banks

This business man was born and Scotland and came to the US as a poor immigrant, but he later made a fortune in the steel industry. His business succeed largely through vertical integration.

• John D Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• JP Morgan

• Leland Stanford