Industrial Revolution technology

2. Write:
The rise technological
innovations
transformed the
American economy
from an agrarian to an
increasingly urban
industrial society.

3. WRITE:
growth of
industry,
rise of big
business, and
revolutions in
transportation and
communication.

4. WRITE:
Other industries soon
follow his example and
used mass production
(assembly line and
interchangeable parts)

5. Write: Before the
2nd Industrial
Revolution,
buildings could not
be built any taller
than 5-6 stories.
Steel made using
the Bessemer
process and the
Otis elevator
enabled architects
to build much taller
buildings.

6. Write:
Cities were growing
because of
immigration and
farm laborers
moving to urban
areas to find work in
factories.
Transportation was
needed to move
people from one
area of the city to
another.
Buffalo, New York late 1800s

7. Write: streetcars, subways, automobiles, airplanes

8. Write: from overhead electrical wires

9. Write: telegraph became the
fastest way to send messages;
telephone allowed people to
talk to one another at great
distances; typewriters could
produce legible documents
very quickly.

11. Write:
Railroads
needed
telegraph for
communication;
railroad tracks
furnished right-
of-way for
telegraph wires.

12. Write:
Movies, electric lights, recorded
sound, and other types of his
inventions are still used today

13. New technologies
made city life more
pleasant and
convenient; the
age’s new
technologies were
put to use in cities.
New York City in
the Late 1800s
Like many cities of the
late 1800s New York
was a busy, crowded
place.