6th Grade Unit 1 and 2

Bessemer Process

• Making steel quicker and cheaper

• invented light bulb

• invented telephone

• first to fly an airplane

Alexander Graham Bell

• way of making steel quicker and cheaper

• invented the telephone

• invented the light bulb

• first to fly an airplane

Thomas Edison

• Way of making steel quicker and cheaper

• invented telephone

• invented light bulb

• first to fly an airplne

The Wright Brothers

• way of making steel quicker and cheaper

• invented the telephone

• invented the light bulb

• first to fly an airplane

What is a patent?

• a period of growth in the U.S Manufacturing in the late 1800s

• exclusive rights to make or sell inventions

• businesses that are owned by many investors who buy shares of stock

• complete control of a product or business by one group

Andrew Carnegie

• first to fly an airplane

• founded a steel company

• founded the Hull House

• took pictures to show how the poor live

John D. Rockefeller

• created an assembly line for cars

• established the Standard Oil Company

• founded Carnegie Steel Company

• started the Hull House

Jacob Riis

• Took pictures to show how the poor live

• founded the Hull House

• created the car assembly line

• invented the light bulb

Henry Ford

• founded the Hull House

• took pictures to show how the poor live

• established the Standard Oil Company

• created the assembly line

Jane Addams

• took pictures to show how the poor live

• founded the Hull House

• owned a steel company

• established Standard Oil Company