Expansion of Industry

Match the people below to their correct discoveries/inventions. Creation of an efficient way to turn iron ore into steel

• Henry Bessemer

• • James Watt

• Telford & McAdam

• • Robert Owens

Which innovation extended the number of hours in a day that Americans could work and play?

• •  Bessemer Process

• Telegraph technology

• • Refrigeration

• • Electricity

Successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville,

• Edwin L. Drake

• Abraham Gesner

• Lewis H. Latimer

• George Westinghouse

• Designed a machine that could attach the upper part of shoes to the soles, helping to automate the shoe manufacturing process. 

• Christopher Sholes

• Thomas Watson

• Margaret E. Knight
  
  

• Jan Ernst Matzeliger

Added innovations that made electricity safer and less expensive.

• Christopher Sholes

• Edwin L. Drake 

• Thomas Alva Edison

• George Westinghouse

What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?

• Telegraph and Morse Code

• telephone

• electricity

• radio

Explain the impact electricity had on factories.

• Factories had to close down early.
• Factories could remain open 24 hours a day.
• People began moving back to the countryside.
• People could only go to the factories in the morning.

All of the following were Factors of the industrial boom except

• A wealth of natural resources

• Inexpensive, convenient source of energy soon became available in homes and spurred the invention of time-saving appliances.

• • Government support for business

• • Growing urban population that provided cheap labor 

All of the following were lifestyles due to inventions except

• The typewriter and the telephone particularly affected office work and created new jobs for women. By 1910 they accounted for nearly 40 percent of the clerical work force.

• • New inventions also had a tremendous impact on factory work, as well as on jobs that traditionally had been done at home. With industrialization, clothing could be mass-produced in factories.

• More important, electricity allowed business owners greater freedom in deciding where to locate their plants. The availability of electric power meant that manufacturers could consider other factors such as population and the availability of natural resources when determining where to locate their plants.

• Many laborers felt that the mechanization of so many tasks reduced human workers’ worth. However, as consumers workers regained some of their lost power in the marketplace.

Played a key role in improving the light bulb when he invented a carbon filament in 1881.

• Abraham Gesne

• Lewis H. Latimer

• George Westinghouse

• Thomas Alva Edison