6.1 The Growth of Industry
Objectives
- To identify factors that nurtured the Industrial Revolution
- To explain how business cycles reflected rapid economic growth
- To describe the growth of the steel and electric-power industries
- To analyze how inventions changed American life
Chapter 6 – Section 1 vocabulary |
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Petroleum – oily, flammable liquid used in making kerosene. |
Patent – document giving inventors sole rights to make and sell their product. |
Business cycle – pattern of good and bad economic times. |
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Bessemer steel process – technique that produced steel cheaper |
generator – machine that produced electric current |
Thomas Edison – inventor who developed a practical light bulb and found the most ways to use electricity. |
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Alexander Graham Bell – inventor who developed the first telephone. |
Centennial Exhibition – a public fair celebrating America’s 100th birthday. |
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Video: Thomas Edison (2:51)
Video: The Birth of Telecommunications (4:11)
A Scottish-born American audiologist, Alexander Graham Bell is best known as the inventor of the telephone.