approach? 7. Explain Edison and Bell’s new inventions: Alexander Graham Bell developed the telephone, and in 1880 his company, American Bell, pioneered long-distance telephone service and created American Telephone and Telegraph as a subsidiary. Inventor Thomas Alva Edison embodied the old-fashioned virtues of Yankee ingenuity and rugged individualism that Americans most admired; he pioneered the use of electricity as an energy source. 8. What name did Edison General Electric change to
Words: 922 - Pages: 4
Vinci Genghis Khan Henry W. Seeley Thomas Alva Edison (47 Dr. Charles Richard Drew Leonardo da Vinci (27 (46 Garrett Augustus Morgan Garrett Augustus Morgan Genghis Khan SUNDBACH, GIDEON Joseph Gayetty (60 Genghis Khan Ataturk Adolf Hitler (16 Leonardo da Vinci Benjamin Franklin Henry Ford Henry Ford Napoleon Bonaparte King David Genghis Khan (15 Genghis Khan (26 (55 Thomas Alva Edison (58 AFFORDABLE CAR STRAUSS, LEVI Thomas Alva Edison John McCain (25 (45 Genghis Khan
Words: 320 - Pages: 2
Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison. January 3, 2014.
Words: 683 - Pages: 3
Kevin Tohak Mrs. Collins APUSH Block 1 23 March 2015 Chapter 24 Key Terms and People to Know Key Terms: 1. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois: decreed that individual states had no power to regulate interstate commerce 2. Interstate Commerce Act: prohibited rebates and pools and required the railroads to publish their rates openly. Forbade unfair discrimination against shippers and outlawed charging more for a short haul than a large one. SET UP ICC to administer and enforce
Words: 487 - Pages: 2
was not useful for practical reasons since it one lasted for a short time. Several people such as scientist and inventors tried to improve the design of the incandescent light bulb during the following decades but never successful. Eventually, Thomas Edison, an inventor, made a major breakthrough by inventing a light bulb that was long lasting and could be manufactured commercially at a reasonable cost. Soon after, light bulbs replaced candles lamps, and lanterns in almost every urban household with
Words: 1289 - Pages: 6
more complex. It is a dual process, which is the combination of some sort of invention and the implementation of it (3). Invention is the creation or breakthrough of new knowledge (3). However, more must be done in order to create value. As Thomas Alva Edison stated, innovation is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration (3). By ‘Inspiration’, he means ‘invention’ and by ‘perspiration’ he means ‘implementation’ (3). It is evident that the implementation plays a huge part in innovation because without
Words: 1026 - Pages: 5
together and founded the Chin Woo Athletic Association. His death, to this day, is controversial but one thing is for sure. That simple fight in Shanghai united all of China and to this day they are still a world power. Most everyone today knows Sir Thomas Isaac Newton and all the studies and theories that he had come up with. The most widely known and recognized study was that of gravity. Most everyone knows how that study came about but no one thinks about the simplicity of where it all started. Born
Words: 1228 - Pages: 5
Gould c. Cornelius Vanderbilt III. Manufacturing and inventions A. The growth of new industries and the transformation of old ones B. Technological advances and the impact on daily life 1. Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone, 1876 2. Thomas Alva Edison and the electric light, 1879 IV. Entrepreneurs A. John D. Rockefeller 1. Pennsylvania oil rush of 1859 2. Rockefeller as oil refiner 3. Growth of Standard Oil 4. Rockefeller’s organization of Standard Oil a. Standard Oil Trust B. Andrew
Words: 976 - Pages: 4
millionaires. Immigrants meant cheap labor, new lines of business. Alexander Graham Bell (574) Who: inventor When: 1876 What: invented the telephone. HS: made the nation telephoniacs and lured women to the switchboards as phone operators. Thomas Alva Edison (574) Who: inventor Where: New Jersey When: 1847-1931 What: invented the phonograph, mimeograph, Dictaphone, moving picture, and the lightbulb. HS: made kerosene obsolete and altered how much people slept. Inventions spread throughout
Words: 1323 - Pages: 6
How railroads were financed- State government, European, private, public Expansion of railroad driven by three forces: a.) Mystic: national identity a. The north and south had one railroad that would bring the two locations together b. Manifest destiny to expand to the west b.) Military a. Civil war had shown how effective moving soldiers across the country was b. Worries about Great Britain, Spanish and Native Americans (railroad can move men and equipment out) c.) Monetary a. Railroads were going
Words: 1567 - Pages: 7
The Iron Colt Becomes an Iron Horse Due to the expansion of the country, many new railroads were built. Congress began to advance liberal money loans to 2 favored cross-continent companies in 1862 in response to the fact that transcontinental railroad construction was so costly and risky. Growing railroads took up more land than they were allotted because their land grants were given over a broad path through the proposed route. The railroad owners would then choose the route to build on. President
Words: 2022 - Pages: 9
