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This revolution after the Civil war, the United States developed into an industrial powerhouse.
Technological revolution
100
Which invention is this?
An electric bulb
100
what did people used during 1860s, instead of electric lighting.
Oil lamps and Candles
100
This invention reduced food spoilage and the need cut, distribute and store ice.
Refrigerator
100
Production is great amounts is known as _____ _____________.
Mass production
200
This invention in 1889, led to the rapid growth of the ready-made clothing industry.
A electric sewing machine
200
The amount of goods and services created in a given period of time is called ___________.
Productivity
200
This energy power source led to many important advances in the nation's industrial development and changed people's eating,working and even sleeping habits.
The Electricity
200
Which invention is this?
Telegraph
300
Steel had long been produced by melting this metal, adding carbon and removing impurities.
Iron
300
The process of Bessemer process made possible the mass production, or production in great amounts of what?
Steel
300
In 1860s, this was used for long distance communication and it took ten days to 3 weeks to reach from the East Coast to the Midwest and the West Coast of the US.
300
The earliest local phone lines could connect only two places, such as a home and a business. Soon this thing with a operators could link an entire city.
Central switchboards
300
The Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies began building ____________ that would link the United States from east to west.
Transcontinental railroad
400
Thomas Edison's favourite invention was this invention.
Phonograph
400
In 1885 George Westinghouse began experiment to produce and transmit electricity cheaply. He also used this device to boost power levels at a station so that electricity could be sent over a long distance.
Transformer
400
Which invention is this?
A telephone
500
who designed a suspension bridge with thick steel cables suspension from high towers to hold up the main span.
John A. Roebling
500
Until the early 1880s people who wanted electricity had to produce it with their own generator. Hoping to provide affordable lighting to many customers, this person developed the idea of a central power station (Power plant).
Thomas Edison
500
By the early 1890s, inventors had used Edison's and Westinghouse's ideas and inventions to created two companies and these companies products encouraged the spread of the use of electricity.
General Electric and Westinghouse Electric
500
In this year, Edison and his inventors tried or invented different ways to produce light within a sealed glass bulb.
1879