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11 Cards in this Set
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Bessemer Process
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Method could produce more steel in one day than the older techniques could turn out in a week
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Edwin L. Drake
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Used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, pennsylvania, in 1859
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Elijah McCoy
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Made a significant contribution to the industrial use of oil
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Patent
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Guarentee to protectant inventor's right to make, use,or sell the invention
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Transcontinental Railroad
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Completed in 1869
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Trunk lines
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Also known as major railroads
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George Westinghouse
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Developed a compressed-air brake
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Telegraph
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Samuel F. B.Morse developed the telegraph as a means of communicating over wires and electricity
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Patented the "talking telegraph" or telephone
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Thomas Alva Edison
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Invented a telegraph that could send up to 4 messages over the same wire simultaneously
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Lewis Latimer
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Testified in several court cases to support Edison's patents
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