Key Terms
This means, "to send, or communicate."
What is transmit?
This is the name of the museum in Rochester dedicated to play, and suitable for people of all ages.
What is the Strong Museum of Play?
Trains could carry much more __________ than wagons, and move it faster,
What is cargo/shipments/goods?
He not only started a car company, but influenced factories for everything with his assembly-line methods for mass production.
Who is Henry Ford?
These were powerful individuals who owned railroads and controlled railroad traffic.
What are railroad barons?
A discount on a product is called this, though sometimes they're given in a way that is unfair.
What is a rebate?
The Wright brothers invented the world's first plane, which would vastly change this.
What is travel/shipping?
People were hurt doing this tough work that literally allowed trains to move.
What is laying track?
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Rich railroad barons made these to eliminate competition, set equal prices, and ultimately make even more money.
What are pools?
This means "to combine" something - larger rail companies did this when they bought smaller ones.
What is consolidate?
In order to keep track of train schedules better, the United States - and the world - was divided into these.
What are time zones?
In general, inventions during the late 1800's and early 1900's helped these two things increase.
He is credited with the very first lightbulb and bringing electrical light to buildings with powerplants, among many other inventions.
Who is Thomas Edison?
By changing tracks from iron to this stronger metal, trains could run faster with heavier loads than before.
What is steel?
Hundreds of thousands of these were registered from 1860-1890; this government license prevented others from copying and profiting off of someone else's idea.
What is a patent?
This is another invention created for businesses or peoples' homes...and that we covered in the notes ;-)
What is the typewriter/vacuum/small-box camera?
Mass producing items reduces these two things, helping the company make money, but also saving the consumer money.
What are costs and prices?
Who is Samuel Morse?
This is a railroad technological development that made trains safer, allowing stopping to happen faster over a shorter distance.
What are air brakes?
This was the first ever sound-recording device, invented by Thomas Edison.
What is a phonograph?
Women "invented less" not because of their capabilities, but because these types of systemic inequalities held them back - such as less access to education, or men taking credit for their work.
What is sexism/inequality/unequal treatment?
What is affordability and durability?
This Black inventor revolutionized the shoe industry when he made a machine that could do it, instead of humans.
Who is Jan Ernst Matzeliger?
When railroads all adopted the standard gauge measurements for tracks, in saved these two things.
What are time and money?