Bayou Bridges Unit 5 Chapter 1 Vocab & Innovators

Created the power loom

• Samuel Adams

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Samuel Slater

• Rosa Parks

Created the first telephone

• Alexander Hamilton

• Samuel Slater

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham BELL

Created the first working light bulb and the first power plant that produced electricity

• Samuel Slater

• Thomas Edison

• George Washington

• Harriet Tubman

Created the carbon filament that kept the light bulb on

• Samuel Slater

• Thomas Edison

• Lewis Latimer

• John D. Rockefeller

Helped farmers in the South grow crops & created hundreds of uses for soybeans and peanuts

• George Washington Carver

• Samuel Slater

• Thomas Edison

• Andrew Carnegie

Created the first affordable automobile, the Model T

• Henry Ford

• David Chevrolet

• Mark Nissan

• Thomas Edison

Created the first airplane

• The Wright Brothers

• The Coleman Brothers

• Nick and Dan Carruthers

• Henry Ford

Big businessman whose business produced steel

• Andrew Slater

• Henry Ford

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

Investor & oil tycoon who became wealthy by mass producing oil

• Andrew Carnegie

• John Adams

• George Washington Carver

• John D. Rockefeller

Raw materials are

• things that can be bought in the store to sell later

• things that can be used to make or create a product, such as cotton for clothing

• things that can be used to clean your house

• things that can be used to turn your product into food for others