Industry, travel, and communications greatly expanded during the 1800s. These innovations began changing the way Americans worked, traveled, and communicated. As the book mentions, industrialization developed into three phases. First phase, manufacture workers divided the tasks among other workers to produce faster production. Second phase, manufacturers built factories with more specialized workers. Third phase, factory workers used more machinery to allow access goods to produced at an incredible rate. These mass productions led to new inventions.
Your assignment: Use this link to choose an invention. There are 13 of you and 13 of inventions. Each student must choose an invention different from other students in the class. After choosing an invention you must research on your own, and discuss the chosen invention. Give details such as who invented this invention, how did it help the United States, what was the outcome, etc.?
ReplyDeleteThe telephone was invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell. The telephone was invented to transmit speech electrically. Alexander Graham Bell attempted to improve the telegraph. It was a huge success. When the telephone was invented, it became a lot more popular than the telegraph. March 10, 1876 is when the telephone worked. Alexander invented more than just the telephone, but it was his greatest success. The first words spoken into the telephone were, “Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.” These were famous words spoken by Alexander Graham Bell. Thomas Watson was Bell’s assistant. The telephone helped and changed the United States because the telephone can transmit information from large distances and it can also transmit information faster. We also do not have to send letters anymore because the telephone was invented. The telephone had a huge impact on the United States. ( 145 words)
The first successful airplane was invented by brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright. By successful I mean it was controlled, didn't crash right when it got in the air, and landed without damage. The first flight was on December 17, 1903, in Kitty Hawk, NC. This was not the first attempt at making an airplane. People had been trying to fly for over a hundred years before (in 1799 George Cayley began working on a glider). After the 12 second flight, people began improving the airplane. This has led to the planes we have today we use to get places and the jets we have today used by our military. It had also led to the invention of rockets for outer space. All because of the 120 foot flight in 1903 we are able to fly 10,000 feet in the air on the average plane ride. We've also been able to go 238,900 miles to the moon and leave our American flag there. So thanks to that little flight we've made some big achievements in America. (177)
ReplyDeleteThe telegraph was created by Samuel F. B. Morse in 1836. He was a professor of arts and design at a New York University in 1835. He used pulses of current to deflect an electromagnet, which moved a marker to produce written codes on a strip of paper, then creating the Morse Code. He soon gave a public demonstration in 1838, but it was not until five years later that Congress funded $30,000 to construct an experimental telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore! It was a distance of 40 miles! However, six years later, members of Congress witnessed the sending and receiving of messages over part of the telegraph line. An interesting fact: Before the line had reached Baltimore, the Whig party held its national convention there, and on May 1, 1844, nominated Henry Clay! The message that was sent by the telegraph was, " What hath God wrought? ". It sent later by "Morse Code" from the old Supreme Court chamber in the United States Capitol to his partner in Baltimore and it officially opened the completed line of May 24, 1844. Another interesting fact: the Morse Code allowed Annie Ellsworth, the young daughter of a friend, to choose the words of the message, and she selected a verse from Numbers XXIII, 23. The use of the telegraph was soon spread from Philadelphia, all the way to New York! It also became functioning in the East, South, and Midwest! In 1881, the Postal Telegraph System entered the field for economic reasons, and merged with Western Union in 1943. So that was one reason the telegraph helped The United States. Also, a trained Morse operator could send 40 to 50 words per minute! Sadly, the telephone outdid the telegraph by 1879. Samuel Morse is the one that is best known for the telegraph and it definitely helped out people! (309)
ReplyDeleteThe first reliable Steam boat was made by Robert fulton. he was not the original inventor, but he was the creator of the first American steam boat and the first reliable one. he made it in 1607 for public service. The steam boat became widely popular and was used and still is used all over America. Fulton went on to invent multiple other steamboats and the steam boat became more advanced. it was used for warships, submarines, public use, and others. The steam boat Clermont made the trip on the Hudson river, 150 mile trip done in only 32 hours, a new record. the steam boat industry is still going today.(111)
ReplyDeleteRudolph Diesel lived from 1858-1913. But in his life he his most well known for his invention of the diesel engine. Like a lot of inventions, the diesel engine wasn't successful on its first test. But after a series of improvements and subsequent test eventually led to a successful test. Even though this was a great invention, the diesel engine needed time to become a commercial success. Many engineers saw how great this invention was, and joined in to help make it a commercial success. The biggest problem with other engine designers coming to help is the language barrier was hard to break. As we all know the diesel engines are now improved and used in diesel trucks. As well as in tractors and some construction equipment. (126)
ReplyDeleteThe cotton gin was invented in 1794 by Eli Whitney. The reason it was invented was it could make the efficacy of cotton picking go up substantially. What it did was it took the cotton and got all of the seeds out way faster than any human could have. Needless to say everyone wanted a cotton gin. Everyone who got one though also needed more people on site to make this thing actually benefit anything so slavery grew. When Eli Whitney made this obviously he didn't expect that to happen it just did. So by making something that helped southern farmers out it also raised the percentage of slavery.
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Samuel F.B Morse laid the groundwork for Cyrus Field. He made the telegraph and perfected the Morse code. In 1854, he secured a charter to lay a well insulated line in the Atlantic Ocean. He had help from American and British ships to lay the line. But it didn’t work out too well because he had four failed attempts starting in 1857. Then in 1858, US and Britain tried again for the fifth time and it worked. President Buchanan and Queen Victoria exchanged messages, but it was very weak. Then again in 1866, it worked and became the first permanent transatlantic line. Now instead of waiting a month or two to receive information, it now just took a couple of minutes. No more incidents like in the war of 1812.(130)
ReplyDeleteBy 1914 Henry Ford had revolutionized manufacturing by creating the assembly line. The assembly line was a conveyor belt and each person had one job and after they did that job they would send it down the conveyor belt to the next person, and this sped up manufacturing A LOT! The famous Model-T , made by Ford, was assembled in 93 minutes! Assembly lines got very popular and most factories had them. Eventually a Model-T was made every 24 seconds! Working for Henry Ford was a good job because he payed $5 a day which was more than most manufacturers. Ford became a well known brand of car, and its owner became a celebrity before dying on April 7, 1947. (121)
ReplyDeleteJames watt improved the second half of the steam engine making it more reliable to use. This engine was used on the locomotives that pull the train Carts, it was also used on the steam boats. It not only maid them more reliable but it also maid it faster which means it could transport goods faster. Steam Engines are still used today, they are even used in nuclear power plants. James Watt invented the word horse power as a way to explain how much work a steam engine could do for a potential buyer, this word is still used today. (101)
ReplyDeleteThe sewing machine is a revolutionary invention that we still use today. The first person to invent a successful one was Elias Howe. Howe moved from his hometown of Spencer, Massachusetts to Boston after he lost his job at a factory--during the Panic of 1837. This time period was first, worst economic depression America had experienced. During his days in Boston, Howe started to design and build a sewing machine, and he didn't master it until the late 1840s. Everyone knows that hand-stitching takes forever--even rapid stitching, but this machine increased the rate to 250 stitches per minute! This increased the amount of clothing made and how fast production went. Isaac Singer and Allen Wilson added features to Howe's sewing machine that made it more popular and sell greatly. Other inventors wanted to copy Howe's masterpiece, but he won rights to the invention in 1856. He even gave a portion of his earnings of two million dollars (from the sewing machine) for donation to the Union Army and served as a soldier himself. His legacy still lives on today as he revolutionized the clothe-making industries. (187)
ReplyDeleteThomas Edison’s biggest challenge was electric light. He didn’t really invent the lightbulb he improved a 50 year old idea of one in 1879. In that time he made a reliable, long lasting source of light. The light sustained for many hours. This invention helped us have a practical source of light that people can use in their own homes. He made many inventions that helped make the technology we use today. It wasn’t just the electric light. It’s also an electric lighting system with all the element that were needed for the invention to work well. It led to further improvements on his invention that’s what we use even today.(111)
ReplyDeleteNikola Tesla invented the Induction electric motor in 1888. Induction motors are the most commonly used electrical machine. They are cheaper more rugged and easier to maintain compared to other alternatives. The induction motor is a type of ac motor. It get power by the rotor by means of electromagnetic induction which is the production of an electrical current across a conductor moving through a magnetic field compared to a commutated which is an electrical switch that is in other motor. These motors are mostly used in industrial drives and smaller versions are used in small appliances. Because their speed is determined by the frequency of the supply current they are mostly used in constant speed applications.(117)
ReplyDeleteNikola Tesla was a physicist, inventor, mechanical and electrical engineer of unusual achievement. He was an important contributer to the birth of electricity, and is best known for his many revolutionery developments in the field of electricity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the AC electric power system. This work helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution. Tesla is most famous for conceiving the rotating magnetic field principle and then using it to invent the induction motor together with the accompanying alternating current long-distance electrical transmission system. Telsa was very important for modern day technology
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