Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray were both inventors in the 1870s. Both men were competing to make a telegram that could receive more than one message at a time. The telephone was actually discovered by accident when they tried to improve a telegraph in 1877. Alexander Bell beat Elisha Gray and they fought many court fights on whose phone was “legal”. Alexander only beat Elisha by 2 hours. Alexander Bell got over 600 lawsuits. He won all of them. When he discovered on March 10, 1876 that his…
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Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3, 1847. He was the second of three sons of Alexander Melville and Eliza Bell. Alexander grew up in a world of speech therapy and helping the deaf learn to speak. Bell graduated high school at the age of 13, and studied anatomy and physiology at the University College in London. Under the tutelage of his father, Alexander learned the art of speech, that would later help him during his telephone promotion tours in 1876 and early 1877…
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providing comfort for travelers with his invention of the railroad sleeping car. It provided spacious accommodations, luxurious travel complete with exceptional food and first class service, and encouraged the middle class to travel in style. Another inventor who benefited from the railroad system was Cyrus McCormick. He designed a horse drawn mechanical reaper that cut the grain to one side of the unit. His factory was located in Chicago where access to raw materials through the water ways was plentiful…
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The Crimean War was fought between Imperial Russia and an alliance consisting of the UK, Great Britian, and Ireland. The Great Exhibition in 1851 attracted six million people, or one third of the population of Great Britain. In 1850, California became the 31st state in the United States. In 1859, the first oil well was found, and it gushed out about 20 barrels per day. The oil well was found in Titusville, Pennsylvania. The Studebaker Brothers Wagon Company was established, soon becoming the largest…
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in the 1860s and 1870s remained relatively low, prompting rigorous competition among many small refineries. 6. How did Rockerfeller control the key elements of production and how was this different from the vertical 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…
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Information Technology’s effect on Society Information technology or better known as IT is not only the term for computers and computer networks, but also technology such as television and telephones. In the past few decades there has been a rapid increase in computing and communications, and as the world grows, so does the demand for technological progress and the use of information technology. Archeologist are digging up tools and weapons of ancient peoples to understand who they were and how…
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The Second Industrial Revolution took place between 1870 and 1914. Urbanization and expanding territories that have not been previously settled were some of the changes that helped fuel the Second Industrial Revolution. Transportation, factory production, and many other types of industries made the United States be a producer of one-third of the world’s industrial services output. Many of the inventions from these industries were interconnected because of the technologies in the Second Industrial…
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Our Society thanks to the Industrial Revolution. Tim Yim Development through Industrialization has benefitted us as a community and a nation. 1.Reflecting on the content covered in the course, how have your views about history changes throughout the semester? Throughout this course, we have taken many different viewpoints of various people and areas. This has allowed me to consider the affects of all types of people when considering certain historically…
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empire, mass productions, cheap transport, larger populations and more 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…
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stuffs and also led in the development of photographic plates and film. b. New energy sources Thomas Edison & Joseph Swan- light bulb Alexander Graham Bell- telephone Gugielmo Macrconi- radio waves across the Atlantic Electric railway in Berlin c. New industrial frontiers d. Employment opportunities for women 4. Development of the automobile G. Dainter- key inventor of the automobile 5. Cartels gnp that works together to fix production. Control crises 6. Growth of Germany as an industrial power German…
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