1. CHAPTER 19:
The Industrial Age
Section 1:
The Second Industrial
Revolution

2. VOCABULARY
 Patent: Exclusive right to make
or sell an invention

3. THE 2ND INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION–
 2nd Industrial Revolution
Period of rapid growth in U.S.
manufacturing in the late 1800’s

4. THE 2ND INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION
 1900 - U.S. became the world’s
industrial leader

5. THE STEEL INDUSTRY
 Henry Bessemer invented the
Bessemer Process
• Made steel quickly & cheaply
by blasting hot air through
melted iron to remove impurities

6. The
Bessemer
Process

7. The Bessemer
Process

8. Steel
Mills

9. Pittsburgh in 1890

10. Monongahela River
Valley

11. AN ENERGY
REVOLUTION
 Invention of kerosene increased
demand for oil

12. AN ENERGY
REVOLUTION
 1859
Titusville, PA–
Edwin Drake first
to drill for oil

13. Pennsylvania’s Oil Region

14. “Wildcatters”

16. AN ENERGY
REVOLUTION
 1879 -Thomas Edison patented
the light bulb

17. Dynamo Power plant

18. AN ENERGY
REVOLUTION
 George Westinghouse could
send power further with
alternating current over Edison’s
direct current

21. A COMMUNICATION
REVOLUTION Bell
 1876 –Alexander Graham
patented the telephone

23. Telephone
Lines

24. A TRANSPORTATION
REVOLUTION
 1893 – Charles and Frank
Duryea built the first motorcar in
the U.S.

25. A TRANSPORTATION
REVOLUTION
 1908 – Henry Ford introduced
the Model T
• First affordable car

26. A TRANSPORTATION
REVOLUTION his
 Used the assembly line in
factories

27. Ford Motor
Company in
Detroit

28. A TRANSPORTATION
REVOLUTION
 1903 – Wilbur and Orville
Wright flew the first airplane at
Kitty Hawk, NC

29. The Wright
Flyer