The Second

Industrial
Revolution
Steel & Railroads
 Late 1800s
 Bessemer Process
 Reduced time it
took to produce
steel
 Price dropped
 Steel was very
important to
revolution.
Steel & Railroads
 More steel—more
rails
 Other advances
also mad them
safer and smooth.
 Strengthened
economy
 Move people
 Transport goods
Oil and Electricity
 1850s-crude oil into
kerosene
 Heat & light
 Demand exploded
 1859-Titusville, PA
 Edwin L. Drake
 Oil well—20 barrels
per day
 Big business in PA,
OH and WV
Rush of New Inventions
 Thomas Edison
 Over 1,000 patents
 Experimented with
electricity
 Light
 Power
 Light bulb
 George Westinghouse
 Late 1880s,
 Power Plant
 Electricity could be
sent to homes.
Communications
 Samuel Morse
 Invented telegraphs
 Long-distance
communication
 Alexander Graham
Bell
 1876: telephone
 By 1900, 1.5 million in
use.
Transportation
 Gasoline-powered
engine
 Automobiles
 Henry Ford and
the Model T
 George and Orville
Wright and the
airplane