Gilded Age: The Second Industrial Revolution by Emily Rice https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r Made with Emily and Piper's Factory en-us 2024-10-24 14:18:02 UTC 2024-10-25 13:36:38 UTC hello@padlet.com 1790: 90% of Americans lived on farms and ranches. pwarner19 https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185928825 2024-10-24 14:36:47 UTC https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185928825 1891: There were over 1,300 central generating stations. That provided enough electricity to power about 3 million light bulbs. erice60 https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185928918 2024-10-24 14:36:50 UTC https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185928918 1900: Nearly a million miles of telegraph wires were carrying more than 60 million messages a year. erice60 https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185934868 2024-10-24 14:40:17 UTC https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185934868 1900: By the turn of the century 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. erice60 https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185940195 2024-10-24 14:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185940195 1903: Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful powered-airplane flights in history, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. After that initial success, inventors worked continually to improve airplane design. erice60 https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185944878 2024-10-24 14:46:02 UTC https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185944878 1865: End of Civil War - The Americans used horses and buges to get around. To light there homes they used candles and oil lamps. They kept there fresh food in a ice box with a big chuck of ice. To get a letter they would what months or more. pwarner19 https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185948425 2024-10-24 14:47:57 UTC https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185948425 1920: The number of commercial telephones had grown to at least 13 million. erice60 https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185950206 2024-10-24 14:49:01 UTC https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185950206 1920: More than 50% of Americans lived in towns and cities rather than in rural areas. erice60 https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185954317 2024-10-24 14:51:31 UTC https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185954317 1876: The new invention was the telephone the inventor was Alexander Graham Bell. pwarner19 https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185954632 2024-10-24 14:51:42 UTC https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185954632 1879: Thomas Edison and his team of scientist invented the light bulb. pwarner19 https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185961404 2024-10-24 14:55:50 UTC https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185961404 1893: Gas powered automobile in the US was invented by Charles and Frank Duryea. erice60 https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185963456 2024-10-24 14:57:11 UTC https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185963456 1882: The new use of electricity was Thomas Edison inventor, the light bulb, he expanded and made a central generating station. pwarner19 https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185969257 2024-10-24 15:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185969257 1883-1885: The Brooklyn Bridge was made and it is 6,700 feet long. Two years after, the world’s first skyscraper was built and it was a 10-story high. pwarner19 https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185990262 2024-10-24 15:13:58 UTC https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3185990262 1877: The invention the phonograph was made, the inventor was Thomas Edison. pwarner19 https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3186298575 2024-10-24 18:49:49 UTC https://padlet.com/erice60/rha1nfaihrkmtk1r/wish/3186298575