Module 20 The Industrial Age

a period of rapid growth in manufacturing and industry in the late 1800s

• Second Industrial Revolution
• Pullman strike
• Homestead strike
• Haymarket Riot

a process developed in the 1850s that led to faster, cheaper steel production

• Bessemer process
• Second Industrial Revolution
• Pullman strike
• Homestead strike

American inventor of over 1,000 patents, he invented the light bulb and established a power plant that supplied electricity to parts of New York City.

• Thomas Edison
• Bessemer process
• Second Industrial Revolution
• Pullman strike

an exclusive right to make or sell an invention

• patents
• Thomas Edison
• Bessemer process
• Second Industrial Revolution

American inventor and educator, his interest in electrical and mechanical devices to aid the hearing impaired led to the development and patent of the telephone.

• Alexander Graham Bell
• patents
• Thomas Edison
• Bessemer process

Founder of Ford Motor Company, he created the moving assembly line and is often credited with helping to create a middle class in American culture.

• Henry Ford
• Alexander Graham Bell
• patents
• Thomas Edison

an innovation of Henry Ford’s that dramatically reduced the cost of production

• moving assembly line
• Henry Ford
• Alexander Graham Bell
• patents

American pioneers of aviation, they went from experiments with kites and gliders to piloting the first successful gas-powered airplane flight and later founded the American Wright Company to manufacture airplanes.

• Wilbur and Orville Wright
• moving assembly line
• Henry Ford
• Alexander Graham Bell

a business that sells portions of ownership called stock shares

• corporations
• Wilbur and Orville Wright
• moving assembly line
• Henry Ford

American industrialist and humanitarian, he focused his attention on steelmaking and made a fortune through his vertical integration method.

• Andrew Carnegie
• corporations
• Wilbur and Orville Wright
• moving assembly line