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Word Splash

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. http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnTEAEBWw5s. Technology Today.

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Word Splash

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  1. 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

  2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnTEAEBWw5s

  3. Technology Today • Give me some examples and explain how technology has had a positive or negative impact on your life.

  4. Inventions Change the Nation20-3

  5. Speeding Up Communication • Cyrus Field- the transatlantic cable • Allowed for telegraph communication across the Atlantic Ocean • Linking Europe with the U.S.

  6. More from Communication… Mores Code

  7. Alexander Graham Bell • Invented the telephone in 1876

  8. How 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.

  9. “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

  10. “Wizard of Menlo Park”- famous nickname • Over 1,000 patents in his career

  11. Other notable inventions… • Refrigerated Railcar- greatly helped the meatpacking industry • Christopher Sholes- typewriter • George Eastman- Kodak camera • Elijah McCoy- device that automatically oiled engines

  12. Henry 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

  13. Automobiles • In 1900, only 8,000 Americans owned cars. • By 1917, more than 4.5 million • Cars went from being an unnecessary luxury, to an affordably, practical machine

  14. First 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!

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