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The Age of Invention

The Age of Invention. 1. WHAT ADVANCES IN TRANSPORTATION WERE MADE IN THE LATE 1800S? 2. wHich INVENTIONS LED TO A COMMUNICATIONS REVOLUTION? 3. In what ways DID thOMAS EDISON HELP SHAPE THE MODERN WORLD?. TRANSPORTATION.

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The Age of Invention

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  1. The Age of Invention 1. WHAT ADVANCES IN TRANSPORTATION WERE MADE IN THE LATE 1800S? 2. wHich INVENTIONS LED TO A COMMUNICATIONS REVOLUTION? 3. In what ways DID thOMAS EDISON HELP SHAPE THE MODERN WORLD?

  2. TRANSPORTATION • Railroads allowed people to travel long distances quite easily, but local forms of transportation were still needed. • Workers wanted faster ways of getting to and from their jobs. • Consumers wanted easier access to stores and attractions These needs gave rise to mass transit Mass transit is defined as public transportation systems that carry large numbers of people and make regular stops along established routes.

  3. STREETCARS • Andrew Hillidie invented the cable car in 1873 • Could navigate hills of San Francisco • Helped pave way to the invention of the subway.

  4. SUBWAYS Traffic in major cities became a problem as horses and electric streetcars competed for space. Boston found a solution: The first subway line was developed in 1887  New York opened its subway in 1904 to even bigger crowds

  5. Nikolaus A. Otto: - Invented the internal combustion engine in 1867 Otto’s invention was then used in the creation of the first “horseless carriage,” otherwise known as the automobile. 1893: Charles and J. Frank Duryea built the first motorcar in the United states First automobile was prohibitively expensive – approx. $2,500 AUTOMOBILES

  6. AIRPLANES • Orville and Wilbur Wright • Bicycle makers from Ohio that crafted the first plane in 1903 • Tested designs of wings with kites, built a wind tunnel to assess the impact of wind forces on their designs. • December 17, 1903:Orville and Wilbur Wright took their first flight. • Only flew for 12 seconds, traveling 120 feet.

  7. COMMUNICATIONS REVOLUTION

  8. TELEGRAPH Patented by Samuel F.B. Morse in 1837, the telegraph functioned by sending messages over wires with electricity. Tapped out patterns of long and short signals that stood for letters of the alphabet. Strung on poles alongside railroad tracks so conductors could communicate with train stations

  9. The Telephone Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell developed devices that could transmit voices using electricity. In 1876, the two men brought their designs to the patent office within hours of each other Bell won the ‘race’ and had his invention patented first.

  10. The Telephone (Cont’d) By 1900, more than a million telephones had been installed throughout the nation 116 years later, December 3, 1992, the first text message was sent.

  11. The Typewriter Invented by Christopher Latham Sholes and Carlos Glidden (Known as the Sholes and Glidden Typewriter (Production began in 1873) Sholes later developed the QWERTY keyboard.

  12. Thomas Edison: The Wizard of Menlo Park “Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.” – Thomas Edison • Opened first lab in 1876 • By 1880, Edison and his team had invented the first phonograph, or record player. • Developed practical electric lightning by creating the incandescent bulb, helped bring electricity to New York City in 1880. • 1882: Installed lighting system powered by his own electric power plant, but the plant could only power homes within one square mile

  13. X-Ray (1895) • Paper Clip • Tractor (1892) • Toilet Paper (1857) • Radio, Fluorescent lights, the Tesla coil (Nikola Tesla) • Revolving Door (1888) • Thumbtack (1900) • Potato chip (1853) • Basketball (1891) • Motorcycle (1867) • Blue Jeans (Levi Strauss, 1873) • Escalator • Elevator Brake (1854) (Elisha Graves Otis) • Dishwasher (1889) • Cotton Candy (1897) • Coca-Cola (1886) • Cash register (1879) • Pasteurization • Vacuum Cleaner (1899) • Bicycle • Cylinder Lock (1861) • Machine gun (1862)(Richard Gatling) • Plastic (1862) • Dynamite • Tin can • Torpedo (1866) • Air brakes • Tungsten steel (1868) • Traffic Lights • Metal Windmill • A.M. Ward – First mail-order catalog • Barbed wire • Carpet sweeper (1876, Melvin Bissell) • Seismograph (1880) • Roll of film (1881) • Automatic piano player • Fountain pen • Heinrich Hertz – Radar • Contact lenses • Matchbook • Rubber heel • Roller Coaster • Safety razor

  14. Review… • How did Thomas Edison help shape the modern world? • What was Morse code and how did it work? • Name one similarity and one difference between the telegraph and the telephone

  15. Define.. Mass Transit Telegraph Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Alva Edison Orville and Wilbur Wright

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