Gilded age: The Second Indtrial Revolution by Chloe Ray https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa en-us 2024-10-24 12:10:32 UTC 2024-10-25 13:21:50 UTC hello@padlet.com 1790: 90% of American lived on farms. mlynd1 https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185692107 2024-10-24 12:23:30 UTC https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185692107 1891: Over 1,300 stations, providing enough electricity to power about 3 million light bulbs. cray59 https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185693419 2024-10-24 12:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185693419 1865: Homes were lit with candles or oil lamps. Fresh foods in an icebox. “horse and buggy” era. mlynd1 https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185698060 2024-10-24 12:27:06 UTC https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185698060 1900: Nearly a million miles of telegraph wires were carrying more than 60 million messages a year. cray59 https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185701808 2024-10-24 12:29:38 UTC https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185701808 1876: Telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell mlynd1 https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185705726 2024-10-24 12:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185705726 1900: Americans used electric lights to illuminate their houses, electric refrigerators to keep food cool, and telephones and telegraphs to instantly transmit news across the continent. cray59 https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185708419 2024-10-24 12:33:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185708419 1879: Light bulb was invented by Thomas Eddison mlynd1 https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185708797 2024-10-24 12:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185708797 1903: Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, accomplished the world's first successful powered-airplane flight. Following that early success, inventors kept refining the design of airplanes. cray59 https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185713964 2024-10-24 12:37:26 UTC https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185713964 1882: Electric Power Industry was developed. Edison built a central generating station in New York City. Electric refrigerators and other appliances were delveloped. mlynd1 https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185714712 2024-10-24 12:37:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185714712 1920: The number of commercial telephones had grown to at least 13 million. cray59 https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185717614 2024-10-24 12:39:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185717614 1883-1885: Brooklyn Bridge stretched 6,700 feet across the East River in New York City. in 1885, the world’s first skyscraper was developed. Both were made from steel. mlynd1 https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185722370 2024-10-24 12:42:07 UTC https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185722370 1877: Phonograph was invented by Thomas Alva Edison. mlynd1 https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185726569 2024-10-24 12:44:37 UTC https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185726569 1920: More than 50% of Americans lived in towns and cities than in rural areas. cray59 https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185727077 2024-10-24 12:44:51 UTC https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185727077 1893: Gas powered automobile in the US was invented by Charles Duryea and J. Frank cray59 https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185733833 2024-10-24 12:48:19 UTC https://padlet.com/cray59/ldw96rwxx5md4oxa/wish/3185733833