The Industrial Revolution, United States of America
The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution in the USA was the second Industrial Revolution after the first Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. In the second revolution, there were new products invented. There were new machines, factories and more. They were many entrepreneurs and businessmen born. The new revolutionary products that were invented for example are Telegraph, Telephone, Cars, Light Bulb, etc. These new inventions changed the way the people lived. They could now travel faster, communicate easily and do much more. The following chart will show the inventions invented and its inventors.
Inventor | Invention | Year |
Robert Fulton | Regular Steamboat service on the Hudson River | 1807 |
Samuel F. B. Morse | Telegraph | 1836 |
Elias Howe | Sewing Machine | 1844 |
Isaac Singer | Improves and markets Howe’s Sewing Machine | 1851 |
Cyrus Field | Transatlantic Cable | 1866 |
Alexander Graham Bell | Telephone | 1876 |
Thomas Edison | Phonograph, First Long-Lasting Incandescent Light Bulb | 1877, 1879 |
Nikola Tesla | Induction Electric Motor | 1888 |
Rudolf Diesel | Diesel Engine | 1892 |
Orville and Wilbur Wright | First Airplane | 1903 |
Henry Ford | Model T Ford, Large-Scale Moving Assembly Line | 1908, 1913 |