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The Second Industrial Revolution. What is an Industrial Revolution? What are we changing? How does this change effect the United States? Men Women Children Immigrants Minorities. Bessemer Process.
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The Second Industrial Revolution • What is an Industrial Revolution? • What are we changing? • How does this change effect the United States? • Men • Women • Children • Immigrants • Minorities
Bessemer Process • The key principle is removal of impurities from the iron by oxidation through air being blown through the molten iron. The oxidation also raises the temperature of the iron mass and keeps it molten. Henry Bessemer
George Westinghouse • George Westinghouse founded Union Switch & Signal, abbreviated (US&S), in 1881, consolidating the assets of companies that had pioneered closed track circuits and interlockings. Operating as an independent company until 1917, US&S became a subsidiary of Westinghouse Air Brake.
George Pullman • He used his money and success to develop a comfortable railroad sleeping car, the Pullman sleeper, or "palace car."
Thomas Alva Edison • An American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and a long lasting light bulb.
Nikolaus August Otto • The German inventor of the internal-combustion engine, the first engine to efficiently burn fuel directly in a piston chamber.
Alexander Graham Bell • His research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing devices that eventually culminated in the invention of the telephone.
Brainstorm reasons why these men and their inventions are important to IR? • George Westinghouse • George Pullman • Thomas Alva Edison • Nikolaus August Otto • Alexander Graham Bell
Why was kerosene important? Kerosene lanterns
Free Enterprise Business that is free from government involvement
Free Enterprise Business that is free from government involvement Gave way to Entrepreneurs People who start a new business
Free Enterprise Business that is free from government involvement Entrepreneurs created Corporations Companies that sell shares of ownership called stocks Gave way to Entrepreneurs People who start a new business
Why would an entrepreneur utilize Vertical Integration? • Andrew Carnegie • Steel Powerhouse
Horizontal Integration Pizza Hut Pizza Outlet Domino’s Papa John’s Chuck E. Cheeses
What effect does Horizontal Integration and Vertical Integration have on business?
Why would an entrepreneur utilize Vertical Integration? • Improve efficiency by making supplies reliable • Control quality of product • Eliminate middleman fees
Why would an entrepreneur utilize Horizontal Integration? • Control rivals • Created trusts • Cycle of buying competing company, • Improve the efficiency of operations • Pressing for discounts on shipments,THUS… • Undercutting his competition AND • Buying them out
Top business men • Carnegie • Rockefeller • J.P. Morgan • Vanderbilt • How did they build their fortunes?