Standard Oil Carnegie Steel JP Morgan John D Rockefeller Cornelius Vanderbilt Andrew Carnegie Railroad Industry Technology Today Give me some examples and explain how technology has had a positive or negative impact on your life ID: 782100
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Slide1
Word Splash
Connect the following terms and put them into a sentence or phrase…
Standard Oil, Carnegie Steel, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie,
Railroad Industry
Slide2Technology Today
Give me some examples and explain how technology has had a positive or negative impact on your life.
Slide3Inventions Change the Nation
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcnXOhrmDB8
Slide4Speeding Up Communication
Cyrus Field- the transatlantic cable
Allowed for telegraph communication
across the Atlantic Ocean
Linking Europe with the U.S.
Slide5Mores Code
More from Communication…
Slide6Alexander Graham Bell
Invented the telephone in 1876
Slide7How far we’ve come!
“An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?”
President Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)
This invention would drastically increase the speed at which business was done.
DO NOT WRITE!
Slide8“The Wizard of Menlo Park”
Most
notable- the light bulb and the phonograph
He opened a workshop in Menlo Park,
NJ
Believed in working with other inventors
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Slide9“
Wizard of Menlo Park”- famous nickname
Over 1,000 patents in his career
Slide10Other notable inventions…
Refrigerated Railcar- greatly helped the meatpacking industry
Christopher Sholes- typewriter
George Eastman- Kodak camera
Elijah McCoy- device that automatically oiled engines
Slide11Henry Ford
Rolled out the first
Model-T
in 1908
Model T was the first affordable car for the American public
Made famous the
moving assembly line which allows for much quicker mass production
Slide12Automobiles
In 1900, only 8,000 Americans owned cars.
By 1917, more than 4.5 million
Cars went from being an unnecessary luxury, to an
affordable and practical
machine
Slide13First Flight
Orville and Wilbur Wright developed one of the first working airplanes.
1903 Kitty Hawk,
NC
12 seconds in the air
120 feet in distance
Many people thought this was a useless invention at the time!
Slide14Ticket Out
List and explain 3 new inventions and their inventors that you learned about today. Drop on the back table on your way out.