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The Industrial Age: Inventors & Inventions

DIRECTIONS: Use the Internet and your textbook, Chapter 19, Section 1, on pages 614-618 to answer the following questions.

Part I: Please answer the following questions in complete sentences.

1. Explain what the 2nd Industrial Revolution was. ______

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2. Explain what the Bessemer Process was. ______

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3. Did building railroads become cheaper or more expensive? Explain your answer. ______

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4. Explain how the railroads impacted cities. ______

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5. Define the term patent. ______

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6. What is kerosene, and what could it be used for? ______

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7. Why did people begin to pump oil from the ground? ______

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8. What problem did Thomas Edison face, regarding the use of electricity? ______

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9. How did Edison solve the problem mentioned in #8.? ______

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10. How did Alexander Graham Bell’s invention improve daily life? ______

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11. Explain how Henry Ford’s idea impacted the automobile industry? ______

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Part II: Google This!

12. Use the internet to help you to define the term efficient, as it relates to industry (or business). ______

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13. Give an example from Ch19-Sec 1 of efficiency in industry or business. Explain your answer. ______

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14. Use the internet to help you explain the main purpose of mass production in industry (or business) is. ______

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15. Give an example from Ch19-Sec 1 of mass productionin industry or business. Explain your answer. ______

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Part III: In Your Journals:

DIRECTIONS: Identify 3 of Thomas Edison’s most important inventions. Explain (a.) what each invention did, (b.) the year each invention was patented OR put into use, and (c.) why you feel it’s one of his 3 most important inventions.

Thomas Edison -

Journal Assignment

2/10/16

INVENTORS & INVENTIONS: Research Notes

DIRECTIONS: In a paragraph for each, identify what these inventors invented and explain what the invention did and how it improved or impacted society. Be sure to include what year each invention was patented, OR put into use. * Explain what Henry Ford is most famous for, even though he technically didn’t invent it. This answer is more complex and will take more effort in explaining.

Henry Bessemer-

Elisha Otis –

Orville and Wilbur Wright –

Alexander Graham Bell –

* Henry Ford –

Journal Assignment

2/10/16

INVENTORS & INVENTIONS: Research Notes

DIRECTIONS: In a paragraph for each, identify what these inventors invented and explain what the invention did and how it improved or impacted society. Be sure to include what year each invention was patented, OR put into use. * Explain what Henry Ford is most famous for, even though he technically didn’t invent it. This answer is more complex and will take more effort in explaining.

Henry Bessemer-

Elisha Otis –

Orville and Wilbur Wright –

Alexander Graham Bell –

* Henry Ford –

Journal Assignment

2/10/16

INVENTORS & INVENTIONS: Research Notes

DIRECTIONS: In a paragraph for each, identify what these inventors invented and explain what the invention did and how it improved or impacted society. Be sure to include what year each invention was patented, OR put into use. * Explain what Henry Ford is most famous for, even though he technically didn’t invent it. This answer is more complex and will take more effort in explaining.

Henry Bessemer-

Elisha Otis –

Orville and Wilbur Wright –

Alexander Graham Bell –

* Henry Ford -

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STOP!

15. Explain how efficiency and mass production helped to increase, or encourage, the growth of the steel

industry, railroad industry, and the automobile industry.

Steel Industry: ______

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Railroad Industry: ______

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Automobile Industry: ______

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16. Which of the 5 Themes of Geography did the Industrial Age impact the most? Explain why you chose the

theme with a specific example from the section. ______

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Group Assignment: Answer the following questions in a paragraph or two.

1. Define the term efficient (or efficiency) as it relates to industry

(or business).

2. Explain what the purpose of mass productionas it relates to

industry (or business).

3. Give an example from Section 1 of how efficiency and mass

production helped to increase, or encourage the growth of, an

industry.

Historic Journal Entree:Your historic journal must be completed in your personal journal or on a separate sheet of paper. It must include 3 facts from the section and/or the worksheet above. Be sure to highlight or underline each fact.

It is the late 1800’s/early 1900’s and you live in a big city, (New York, Chicago, Boston, or Philadelphia for example) and you are writing a letter to a relative who moved out west, to tell them about one of the new inventions mentioned in Ch.19, Sec.1. You don’t own one or have it in your house, but you saw it at a World’s Fair exhibition or read about it in Harper’s Magazine or Scientific American (two popular magazines from the 1800’s). Be sure to give some information about the invention.

Name______Class______

1. Look up and define the term efficient (or efficiency), as it relates to industry(or business).

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2. Look up and define the term mass production,as it relates to industry (or business).

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3. Read throughCh19, Sec 1 (pg.614) and explain how efficiency and mass production helped

to increase, or encourage the growth of, the steel industry and the automobile industry.

Steel Industry: (Be sure to mention how the Bessemer Process affected this.)

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Automobile Industry: (Be sure to mention how the Henry Ford affected this.)

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