A NEW INDUSTRIAL AGE

THE EXPANSION OF INDUSTRY

OBJECTIVES
Explain how an abundance of natural
resources, new recovery methods, and new
uses for them lead to intensive
industrialization
Identify inventions that changed the way
people lived and worked
NATURAL RESOURCES FUEL INDUSTRY
Only 60 years after the Civil War, U.S. has moved from an Agrarian society to the leading industrial nation
Why?
Wealth of natural resources
Government support of
business
Growing urban population
Aided by immigration
Cheap labor
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NATURAL RESOURCES FUEL INDUSTRY
Black Gold
Edwin L. Drake
1
st
to practically remove oil
via steam engine in
Titusville, PA
Distilled in kerosene
The by product, gasoline,
was originally thrown away
NATURAL RESOURCES FUEL INDUSTRY
Bessemer Steal Process
Iron
Dense
Easley breaks and rusts
If you remove the
carbon from inside iron
ore, you can create steel
Bessemer Steal Process
Injecting air into molten iron to
remove carbon and other
impurities
Eventually replaced by open-
hearth process
Could use scrap and raw
materials
NATURAL RESOURCES FUEL INDUSTRY
New Uses for Steel
Railroad
Tracks
Agriculture
Barbwire
Farm machinery
Infrastructure
Bridges
Skyscrapers
INVENTIONS PROMOTE CHANGE
The Power of Electricity
Thomas Edison
Incandescent Light bulb
Factors break free
No longer need to be
near power
sources/water
INVENTIONS PROMOTE CHANGE
Inventions Change Lifestyles
Christopher Sholes Typewriter
Alexander Graham
Bell
Thomas Watson
Telephone
New jobs for women
1890 < 5%
1910 ~40%
Industrialization of Workforce
textile/garment
Workers standard of living