Beacon History - New Industrial Age Vocab

He successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsyvania making the removing of oil from beneath the earth's surface practical

• Edwin Drake

• John D. Rockefeller

A dense metal that is soft and tends to break and rust

• Steel

• Iron

The technique which involved the injection of air into molten iron to remove the carbon and other impurities

• Open Hearth Process

• Bessemer Process

With thousands of miles of tracks, they became the biggest customers for steel.

• Factories

• Railroads

The first skyscraper built with a steel frame

• Home Insurance Building

• Empire State Building

In 1876, he established the world's first research labortory in Menlo Park, New Jersey

• Thomas Edison

• Eugene Debs

He invented the typewriter in 1867

• Christopher Shoals

• Alexander Graham Bell

The technique for making steel which enabled manufacturers to produce quality steel from scrap metal as well as raw materials.

• Bessemer Process

• Open Hearth Process

This metal allowed for the building of skyscrapers and bridges.

• Iron

• Steel

He invented the telephone in 1876

• Christopher Shoals

• Alexander Graham Bell