Inventors & Innovations
Large business combinations that controlled major industries like oil and steel.
What are trusts?
Vehicles powered by steam connected farms, factories, and cities
What are trains?
People moving from villages into factory cities.
What is urbanization?
taxes placed on imported goods
What is tariffs?
American inventor famous for the practical incandescent light bulb and electric power systems.
Who was Thomas Edison?
Banker and financier who helped organize large corporations and trusts in steel.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
These ships replaced sails and sped global trade
What are steamships?
Pollution related disease
What is cholera?
This new urban building style became possible with steel frames and changed city skylines.
What is skyscrapers?
He invented air brakes that made train travel safer and faster.
Who is George Westinghouse?
Captured much of the oil industry and formed Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Transformed different parts of the world and the econmy
What is trade?
Contributed to air pollution.
What is coal smoke?
Led to poor working conditions
What is mass production?
This communication technology linked distant regions with fast messages.
What is telegraph?
Steel magnate who used mass production and dominated his industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This water route completed in 1869 shortened travel between Europe and Asia.
What is the Suez Canal?
Crisis in London in 1858 that pushed major sewer reforms.
What is the Great Stink of 1858?
Transported people throughout the cities of Europe
What is electric streetcars?
Invented the first synthetic dye
Who was William Perkin?
Railroads and steamships cut transport costs helping economies grow by lowering shipping prices.
What are reduced transport costs?
These communication lines under oceans sped global messages by 1900.
What are telegraph cables?
Engineer designed the sewer system built after the Great Stink to reduce disease in Victorian London.
Who is Joseph Bazalgette?
Contributed to air pollution
What is electric energy production?