Gilded Age: The Second Industrial Revolution by Isaac Chaney https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e made with Ronalds child labors en-us 2024-10-24 14:18:02 UTC 2024-10-25 13:28:13 UTC hello@padlet.com 1790: 90% of the population lived on farms. rcallentine https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185921463 2024-10-24 14:32:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185921463 1891: Providing enough electricity to power about 3 million light bulbs. ichaney2 https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185924530 2024-10-24 14:34:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185924530 1900: Nearly a million miles of telegraph wires were carrying more than 60 million messages a year. ichaney2 https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185938194 2024-10-24 14:42:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185938194 1865: Americans used horses and buggies with candles and kept food in ice boxes. rcallentine https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185942502 2024-10-24 14:44:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185942502 1876: Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. rcallentine https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185947728 2024-10-24 14:47:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185947728 1900: Many Americans illuminated their homes with electric lights, 40% of Americans lived in cities, and by 1920 more than 50% of Americans lived in towns and cities than in rural areas. ichaney2 https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185955526 2024-10-24 14:52:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185955526 1879: Thomas Alva Edison invented the light bulb. rcallentine https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185956467 2024-10-24 14:52:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185956467 1903: The brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful powered-airplane flights in history ichaney2 https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185959136 2024-10-24 14:54:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185959136 1882: Edison built a central generating station giving people acsess to electricy to a lot of people. rcallentine https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185965213 2024-10-24 14:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185965213 1920: The number of commercial telephones had grown to at least 13 million. ichaney2 https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185968244 2024-10-24 15:00:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185968244 1920: more than 50% of Americans lived in towns and cities than in rural areas. ichaney2 https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185970823 2024-10-24 15:01:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185970823 1883-1885: Using steel they built the Brooklyn bridge and a skyscraper. rcallentine https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185972273 2024-10-24 15:02:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185972273 1893: Charles Duryea and J. Frank, who were bicycle mechanics at the time, designed the first successful American gasoline automobile. ichaney2 https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185972761 2024-10-24 15:03:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3185972761 In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph rcallentine https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3187489459 2024-10-25 12:01:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ichaney2/txyqio287n3w5p9e/wish/3187489459