September 16, 2009 Warm-up

Why is the 2nd Industrial Revolution so important to the creation of the United States? 5-10 sentences.

What is an Industrial Revolution? What are we changing? How does this change effect the

United States? Men Women Children Immigrants Minorities

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 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.

He used his money and success to develop a comfortable railroad sleeping car, the Pullman sleeper, or "palace car."

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.

The German inventor of the internal-combustion engine, the first engine to efficiently burn fuel directly in a piston chamber.

His research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing devices that eventually culminated in the invention of the telephone.

George Westinghouse

George Pullman Thomas Alva

Edison Nikolaus

August Otto Alexander

Graham Bell

Pittsburgh is the birthplace of many of the inventions and inventors you’ve studied today. List the different places that have been named after the men or inventions we’ve discussed.

Business that is free from government involvement

Business that is free from government involvement

Gave way to EntrepreneursPeople who start a new business

Business that is free from government involvement

Gave way to EntrepreneursPeople who start a new business

Entrepreneurs created Corporations

Companies that sell shares of ownership called stocks

Improve efficiency by making supplies reliable

Control quality of product

Eliminate middleman fees

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Pizza Outlet

Pizza Outlet

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

Carnegie Rockefeller J.P. Morgan Vanderbilt How did they build their fortunes?