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26 Cards in this Set
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Efficient method of making steel
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Bessemer process
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Exclusive right to manufacture or sell an invention
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patent
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Railroad that crossed the continental U.S.; completed in 1869
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Transcontinental railroad
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Major railroads connected to outlying areas by feeder or branch lines
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trunk lines
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Machine patented by Samuel Morse in 1837 that sent messages over long distances by using electric current to transmit a system of dots and dashes over wire
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telegraph
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How much more steel could be turned with the Bessemer process compared to the old way?
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More in a day than the old one could do in a week
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What did the increase in availability of steel lead to?
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Its widespread industrial use
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By the late 1850's, chemists and geologists had developed a process to refine crude oil to turn it into what product?
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Kerosene
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This product became a cheap substitute for what product?
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Whale oil
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The oil boom in western Pennsylvania encouraged _________. They referred to the oil as "______ ______."
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prospecting; black gold
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When was the first transcontinental railroad completed?
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1869
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By what two companies?
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Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads
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In what town did the two companies meet, where the last spike was driven?
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Promontory, Utah
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Where and when was the first horseless carriage built?
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France in 1770
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Who built the first internal combustion engine powered by gasoline invented and in what year?
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Nikolaus A. Otto in 1876
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Who built the first practical motorcar in the U.S. and in what year?
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Charles and J. Frank Duryea in 1893
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The telegraph caused what business to close down?
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Pony Express
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What was invented that allowed users to quickly produce easily legible documents?
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typewriter
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The typewriter led to ______ ______ which provided jobs for clerical workers.
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typing pools
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Thomas Edison was a pioneer in what type of technology?
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communications
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The book does not refer to Edison as an inventor but an _______.
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innovator
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In what four areas did Edison make significant discoveries and advances?
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Electricity, lightbulbs, phonographs, and early motion-picture cameras
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Where was Thomas Edison's workshop located?
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Menlo Park, New Jersey
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To what did Lewis Latimer make significant contributions of development?
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The lightbulb
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What did Edison open in 1882?
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One of the world's first electric power plants in New York City
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What did Westinghouse and Tesla do?
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They developed a transformer that could transmit a high-voltage alternating current over long distances
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