Energy Sources
The main power source for trains and boats in the 1800s
Increases production because it does the work of several people
What is machinery?
Helped secure the United States as a world power by controlling the seas/ocean
What are battleships?
Allowed long-distance communication by using morse code
What is the telegraph?
Invention by Thomas Edison during the Gilded Age
What is the lightbulb?
Expanded available hours for production
What was the impact of electricity?
New machinery was housed in these buildings, which paid low wages
What are factories?
Two technologies that led to a stalemate in World War I
What is the impact of machine guns and trenches?
Allowed long-distance communication with audio
What is the telephone?
Mass production of steel allowed the construction of skyscrapers and factories
What is the Bessemer Process?
The energy source mostly used for automobiles and is less prone to outages
What is oil and gasoline?
Increased production and made popular by Henry Ford
What is the assembly line?
Created from the Manhattan Project in the 1940s
What are nuclear weapons?
Passes signals from space and mostly used in for radios, phones and TVs
What is a satellite?
What is NASA?
Considered clean energy with almost unlimited supply, such as water, wind, and sunlight
What is renewable energy?
Increased productivity and accuracy without the need for human workers
What is robotics?
Lightweight technology that eliminates the need to send soldiers overseas
What are drones?
Increased the ease of obtaining information and created online communities
What is the Internet?
An economic system of private ownership where competition is encouraged
What is the free enterprise system or capitalism?
Conflicts with the Middle East led to a disruption in the distribution/price of oil
What is the OPEC embargo?
Assembly lines lead to more affordable cars, which eventually lead to these being built.
What is the growth of suburbs and highways?
They ended the stalemate in World War I
What are tanks?
Uses a network of satellites, was fully operational in 1995 and is widely used today for navigation
What is GPS (Global Positioning System)?
Encourages companies to make better products and gain new customers
What is competition?