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Objective 2.1: American Inovations

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play 1800 for Magical and exciting time in America  it seemed like every day new ideas were becoming reality  what you are watching the series of short spell made by Thomas Edison's Motion Picture company Americans for the first time could sit in a dark room and watch pictures come to life  new Innovations change life everyday that were new opportunities everywhere America was a great land of promise  and it all happened during the Gilded Age a time. When new ideas new inventions and the American Spirit drove us to the Future  American industrialization was period between 1850 and 1920 where American inventions natural resources and an urban Workforce field in explosion of US economic throughout this. American inventions made life easier and Hike the protiviti of American workers while the same time farmers and workers produced and consumed Parts in Mass amounts  railroads intricately connected the country and markets from east to west and American businesses expand America's role in the world economy inventions helped to change Americans lives one of the most important inventions was created by Edwin call Drake Drake and reduces the use of steam power to oil drilling which helps to create an oil boom steam power helped to speed up the process of removing oil the ground which created a surplus of oil making oil cheaper and more accessible another invention that was hugely important to American industrialization was the Bessemer Steel developed by Henry Bessemer the process involved blowing hot air into liquid iron or does removing the carbon and producing Steel Jill was a lighter and more durable version of iron but was just a strong the Bessemer steel process allowed steel to be mass-produced lowering its price and increasing the Quan available two firms the use of steam power in oil drilling and the Bessemer steel process or very important because oil and steel would become the two main ingredients of the American to the next 100 years oil use during industrialization and steel products a lot greater flexibility on what to build and where to build it conventions instantly improve the quality of life for Americans ever made by American inventors  Edison's incandescent light bulb harnessed electricity play bulb and produce light by running it through a filament Edison leader helped invented system for harnessing and distributing electricity over distances with the ihnken light bulb electricity is now safer cheaper and used everywhere it led to the inventions of appliances and electricity allowed City to expand over vast distances factories no longer had to be built near rivers allowing factories to be built wherever needed the next American invention is the telephone invented by Xander Graham Bell the telephone laid the groundwork for a worldwide Coast to Coast telecommunications Network Americans no longer relied on a wire telegram to communicate instead they could communicate almost instantaneously from anywhere around the country the telephone created White Collar office jobs for women as secretaries of first in the American Workforce muscle work does telephone operators the telephone also connected markets quickly everywhere around the United States the next invention of the typewriter created by Christopher Sholes the Mead work more efficient to open up job opportunities for women  American life was forever changed by one of the biggest Innovations of the 19th century the fueled by Steel coal and steam the locomotive spent every corner of the United States  the railroad quickly opened up the vast the new markets in New Towns people traveled West open lands restarted their lives and exchange goods cities and markets popped up everywhere long green lights a huge development of the railroad industry came about in 1869 with the Transcontinental Railroad with the kneeling of a golden spike in Promontory Utah the Eastern United States and the western United States were connected for the very first time laid by Chinese immigrants civil war vets and freed slaves the Transcontinental Railroad travel time from a matter of weeks to a matter of days  due to the Transcontinental Railroad 24 time zones were created to keep schedules in the United States divided into four time zones eastern central mountain and Pacific railroads became so important to American life that Townsend please received around  the town of Pullman was created by railroad magnate George Pullman Pullman was the designer of boxcars which we pulled by local to allow Riders to ride in luxury around the country he designed a company town for his railroad workers and provided housing shops hospitals and all the luxuries of a city workers and their families however Pullman demanded a strict code of conduct while living in the city which eventually led to the Pullman Strike as a result of the strike hookers left the city in droves and the town collapsed  the success of the railroad industry also led to corruption and abuse I made illegal and Eels not exemplifies this corruption more than the credit mobilier Scandal the company was owned by politicians and railroad owners charge the government three times real cost of railroad construction jobs they then skinned up the top and kept the rest for themselves at the expense of the taxpayer the Bold Regis abuses of the railroad industry that the outrage among the people eventually the federal government stepped in and began to regulate the railroads one example where the grain lost proposed by farmers of the Great Plains tired of illegal land deals that robbed them of land they asked the government to regulate railroad fees and the use of land for building new when the railroad companies sued in the court case Munn versus Illinois 1877 the Supreme Court ruled in the side of the farmers and judge the Granger laws constitutional the federal government also created the Interstate Commerce Commission also known as the ICC this commission was created to limit excessive railroad fees and oversee and regulate railroads plant  so why does this matter the new inventions of the Gilded Age changed Americans lives forever it made life more did you change the way we looked at the world  the railroad forever altered the way we travel but used to take months now only took weeks or days Goods could be shipped faster and every corner of the country was linked by a railroad route  with abundance of raw materials and American Ingenuity and ideas the pasta place of the future seemed Limitless

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