The Secondary Industrial Revolution by Katherine Maples https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777 en-us 2024-10-24 12:11:05 UTC 2024-11-04 13:28:21 UTC hello@padlet.com 1891: There were over 1,300 electricity stations, providing enough electricity to power about 3 million light bulbs. epatterson2009 https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185697303 2024-10-24 12:26:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185697303 1790: 90% of Americans lived on farms compared to the 2% in modern times. kmaples6 https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185698104 2024-10-24 12:27:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185698104 1900: nearly a million miles of telegraph wires were carrying more than 60 million messages a year. epatterson2009 https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185703397 2024-10-24 12:30:31 UTC https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185703397 1865: Only 85% lived in urban areas. With their homes being lit by oil lamps and candles. kmaples6 https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185708198 2024-10-24 12:33:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185708198 1900: Many Americans illuminated their homes with electric lights, kept foods cold in electric refrigerators, and could send news across the continent an instant by telegraph or telephone. epatterson2009 https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185713851 2024-10-24 12:37:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185713851 1876: The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell kmaples6 https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185716439 2024-10-24 12:38:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185716439 1903: After that initial success from Orville and Wilbur Wright, inventors worked continually to improve airplane design and have the human race take flight. epatterson2009 https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185718533 2024-10-24 12:40:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185718533 1879: Thomas Edison invents the light bulb. kmaples6 https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185721167 2024-10-24 12:41:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185721167 1920: The number of commercial telephones had grown to at least 13 million. epatterson2009 https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185722722 2024-10-24 12:42:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185722722 1882: the light bulb is used to power homes and streets. Letting businesses stay open later kmaples6 https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185730333 2024-10-24 12:46:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185730333 1920: More than 50% of Americans lived in towns and cities than in rural areas. epatterson2009 https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185730530 2024-10-24 12:46:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185730530 1893: The first U.S. gas-powered automobile was built, 130 years ago, by the Illinois-born Charles and Frank Duryea in Springfield, Massachusetts. The Duryea automobile had a one-cylinder, four-horsepower engine epatterson2009 https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185738444 2024-10-24 12:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185738444 1883-1885: Steel became an important resource for building the longest suspension bridge in the world at 6,700 feet across kmaples6 https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185745920 2024-10-24 12:55:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kmaples6/a9p8x1ymhroqg777/wish/3185745920