Inventions and other major U.S. Industries

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Inventions and other major U.S. Industries

• Objectives to identify other major industries
  and name inventions developed and their inventors

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Major Industries

• Cattle ranching grew with the railroads
• Meat-packing industry then grew
• Developed by Philip Armour, Gustavus Swift and
  Nelson Morris
• Led to the creation of a refrigerated railroad car

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Meatpacking plant 1905
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New Railroads

• Vanderbilt and James Hill were instrumental in
  constructing new railroads
• Created first great railroad system the New York
  Central
• First to use steel rails, bridges and double
  tracks
• Hill created new settlements to help immigrants
  along the new railroads

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New York Central Certificate
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Other Inventions

• Thomas Edison- had an invention factory, where
  other inventors could work
• Created the first indoor electric light bulb
• Created the phonograph, which reproduced sound
• Alexander Graham Bell- telephone 1876
• George Eastman Kodak- 1880 Kodak camera

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Other Inventions

• Lewis Waterman- 1884 Fountain Pen
• Ottmar Mergenthaler- 1884 typesetting
• George Washington Carver- Helped created
  equipment for crops
• Booker T. Washington- started the Tuskegee
  Institute
• Elisha Otis- 1889 elevator
• Henry Ford- gas powered automobile engines
• Horatio Alger- Writer who explained rags to
  riches

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