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Bessemer Process
A method of steel making that could produce more steel in a day than others could in a week.
Increased production increased the availability of steel and resulted in it's widespread industrial use.
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Oil Refining
Produced kerosene (by refining crude oil), a cheap substitute for whale oil.
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Railroads
Easier to make due to cheaper steel.
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George Westinghouse
Developed a compressed-air brake that increased railroad safety by allowing all the cars to stop at the same time.
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Effects Of Growing Railroad Industry
- Increased western settlement by making travel afordable and easy.
- New towns sprang up where railroads were built, and exsisting towns grew into cities.
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Economic Impact Of Railroads
- Railroad companies supplied many jobs.
- Helped out the steel and railroad car construction industrias.
- Allowed companies to sell their proucts nationally.
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Nikolaus Otto
made first gas powered internal combustion engine.
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Charles and Frank Duryea
Built first practical car using Otto's gasoline engine.
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Airplanes
Made by Wright brothers in 1903
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Telegraph
Developed by Samuel Morse. Made communication faster and easier.
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Telephone
Made by Alexander Graham Bell. Women got jobs as telephone operators.
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Western Union
was the leading telegraph company and had more than 2,000 offices in 1886.
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Typewriter
- Made by Christopher Sholes.
- Allowed users to quickly produce easily legible documents.
- Gave jobs to women in typing pools.
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Thomas Edison
- Born in 1847
- Invented the lightbulb, DC electricity, early motion pictures, and the kinetograph.
- Opened one of the first electric power plants.
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Phonograph
Invented in 1877.
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Lightbulb
Invented in 1879.
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Lewis Latimer
Edison's Assistant
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Steel
- More railroads.
- Stronger and bigger buildings.
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