An Age of Innovation
In the first decade of the US Patent Office (1790-1800)276new inventions were patented, From 1890 to 1900235, 000new devices were patented. At the time of his death Thomas Edison held 1,328 patentsYEAR / INVENTION / INVENTOR
1860 / Repeating rifle / Spencer
1861 / Monitor, warship / Ericsson
1861 / Machine Gun / Gatling
1868 / Air Brake / Westinghouse
1868 / Refrigerator Car / Davis
1868 / Typewriter / Sholes and Glidden
1874 / Barbed wire / Glidden
1875 / Magazine Gun / Hotchkiss
1876 / Telephone / Bell
1876 / Carpet Sweeper / Bissell
1878 / Disc cultivator / Mallon
1879 / Incandescent lamp / Edison
1879 / Cash register / Ritty
1882 / Electric fan / Wheeler
1882 / Electric flatiron / Seeley
1884 / Electric Trolley Car / Van Depoel
1884 / Punch card accounting / Hollerith
1885 / Adding machine / Burroughs
1885 / Linotype / Mergenthaler
1888 / Harvester-thresher / Matteson
1891 / Submarine / Holland
1892 / Electric automobile / Morrison
1892 / Gasoline automobile / Duryea
1896 / Electric stove / Hadaway
1896 / Plow disc / Hardy
in the Industrial Age
Accelerated technological innovation, emphasizing new inventions and applied science. In the first decade of the
US Patent Office (1790-1800)276new inventions were patented, From 1890 to 1900235, 000new devices were patented.
1876Thomas Edison
1876 - THOMAS EDISONcreated aninvention factory in Menlo Park, NJNew forms of organization + technology = grander scales of production and outputRationalizes and organizes research and invention. Pay people to invent and innovate
Edisons Google Logo:
Today is the birthday of Thomas Alva Edison. To mark it, Google created a logo or a new doodle. This time, the Google logo shows some of Edison's most famous discoveries made using a series of 22 animated jpg image. The logo displays the flashing light bulbs in place of the letter 'L', the incandescent light bulb is one of the most important Edison's discoveries that revolutionizing the way of people to light up their homes. In addition, he also opened the way for more inventions and technologies. Edison did not just make one discovery. He held 1,093 United States patents (U.S.) as well as England, France and Germany. He opened a commercial electric station in New York City that serves 85 customers who now owned by one of the first movie studio 'Black Maria'. There are many other achievements of Edison. Google's new logo has a moving belt, flashing light bulbs and other moving elements. However, all displayed by way of nostalgia, a suitable tribute to a man who gave birth early version of today's modern wonders.
RESULT:Rationalizes and organizes research and invention.Pay people to invent and innovate
1876James Bonsack and James B Duke
Bonsack's cigarette rolling machine, as shown on U.S. patent 238,640.
1876- James Bonsackrevitalized the tobacco industry by inventing a machine for rolling cigarettes.His invention was popularized byJames B. Duke, owner of the American Tobacco Company
Throughout the industrial strive in the North, the South produced a smaller percentage of the nation's manufactured goods. Southern agriculture received a boost in the 1880s when machine-made cigarettes replaced earlier methods of producing cigarettes. This caused tobacco consumption to shoot up. James Buchanan Duke took advantage of the growing tobacco business and formed theAmerican Tobacco Companyin1890.
RESULT:Large scale production and consolidation of Tobacco industry
1870'sHenry Bessemer and Andrew Carnegie
1870'sHenry Bessemerinvented a process for removing air pockets and impurities from iron, and thus allowed a stronger steel to be made. This made skyscrapers possible, as well as advances in shipbuilding and construction. Introduced to Carnegie factories in 1870 - re-shapes workplace and the role of humans (IMAGE)
RESULT:Steel is cheaper and stronger!!Railroad ties lasted only2 years, before the Bessemer process, now last20 years.Price drops from$100.00per ton in 1870 to$15.00per tonin 1890. Inexpensive steel now goes into some commonplace implements