Gilded Age Second Industrial Revolution by Brayden Booth https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj Made with Dakota's factory workers. en-us 2024-10-24 14:18:02 UTC 2024-10-25 13:24:55 UTC hello@padlet.com 1790: 90% of Americans lived on farms in rural areas. dglenn26 https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185919816 2024-10-24 14:31:46 UTC https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185919816 1891: there were over 1,300 stations, providing enough electricity to power about 3 million light bulbs in America. bbooth34 https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185934668 2024-10-24 14:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185934668 1865: Americans still lived in the horse and buggy era. They kept fresh food in an icebox, the homes were lit with candles, cabinets were cooled by large blocks of ice, and they waited a month just for letters to come across. dglenn26 https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185940090 2024-10-24 14:43:15 UTC https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185940090 1900: nearly a million miles of telegraph wires were carrying more than 60 million messages a year. bbooth34 https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185946088 2024-10-24 14:46:40 UTC https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185946088 1876: The new invention was a telephone message made with an emergency Bell and Watson were the inventor dglenn26 https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185947969 2024-10-24 14:47:40 UTC https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185947969 1879: Edison made the first light bulb out of bamboo fibers taken from a Japanese fan. dglenn26 https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185957101 2024-10-24 14:53:00 UTC https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185957101 1900: Many Americans illuminated their homes with electric lights, kept foods cold in an electric refrigerator, and could send news across the continent in an instant by telegraph or telephone. bbooth34 https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185962470 2024-10-24 14:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185962470 1882: Edison built a central generating station in New York City also wiring electrified a section of lower Manhattan. dglenn26 https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185964053 2024-10-24 14:57:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185964053 1903: The brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful powered-airplane flights in history bbooth34 https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185965633 2024-10-24 14:58:39 UTC https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185965633 1920: The number of commercial telephones had grown to at least 13 million. bbooth34 https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185966940 2024-10-24 14:59:21 UTC https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185966940 1883-1885: the longest suspension bridge in the world, the Brooklyn Bridge was opened, stretching 6,700 feet across the East River in New York City. Then two years later, builders erected the world’s first skyscraper, a 10-story building in downtown Chicago. dglenn26 https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185970027 2024-10-24 15:01:26 UTC https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185970027 1920: More than 50% of Americans lived in towns and cities than in rural areas. bbooth34 https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185971687 2024-10-24 15:02:29 UTC https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185971687 1877: Thomas Edison invented the phonograph using a combination of the phonautograph. dglenn26 https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185976033 2024-10-24 15:05:09 UTC https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185976033 1893: Charles Duryea and J. Frank made the first gas powered automobile. bbooth34 https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185976049 2024-10-24 15:05:10 UTC https://padlet.com/bbooth34/gbz2mlejamzcrpsj/wish/3185976049