Gilded Age: 2nd Industrial Revolution by Tyler Kuerschner https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a en-us 2024-10-24 12:10:30 UTC 2024-10-24 12:52:17 UTC hello@padlet.com 1780: 90% of Americans live on farms tkuerschner1 https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185690958 2024-10-24 12:22:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185690958 1891: There were over 1300 stations, providing enough electricity to power around 3 million light bulbs. aglenn33 https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185691598 2024-10-24 12:23:04 UTC https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185691598 1900: nearly a million miles of telegraph wires were carrying more than 60 million messages a year. aglenn33 https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185694790 2024-10-24 12:25:14 UTC https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185694790 1865: People were living in "horse and buggy" with oil lamps and big ice blocks, but after the Civil War, Edison invented the light bulb. tkuerschner1 https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185699518 2024-10-24 12:27:54 UTC https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185699518 In 1900: 40% of Americans lived in cities many 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. aglenn33 https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185701547 2024-10-24 12:29:25 UTC https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185701547 1876: The Telephone come next by Alexander Graham Bell tkuerschner1 https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185703872 2024-10-24 12:30:51 UTC https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185703872 1903: Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful powered-airplane flights in history becoming a new form of transportation, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. After that initial success, inventors worked continually to improve airplane design. aglenn33 https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185705496 2024-10-24 12:31:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185705496 1879: Edison used bamboo fibers to light his light bulbs tkuerschner1 https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185706674 2024-10-24 12:32:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185706674 1920: The number of commercial telephones had grown to at least 13 million. aglenn33 https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185708614 2024-10-24 12:34:00 UTC https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185708614 1882: A central generating station in New York tkuerschner1 https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185709823 2024-10-24 12:34:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185709823 1920: More than 50% of Americans lived in towns and cities than in rural areas. aglenn33 https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185714723 2024-10-24 12:37:52 UTC https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185714723 1893: Charles Duryea and J. Frank, who were bicycle mechanics at the time, designed the first successful American gasoline automobile in Springfield Massachusetts, later being sold as the first American-made gas powered car in 1896. aglenn33 https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185720559 2024-10-24 12:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185720559 1883 - 1885: The Brooklyn Bridge and a 10 story building in Chicago made of steel tkuerschner1 https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185721102 2024-10-24 12:41:16 UTC https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185721102 1877: The photograph was invented by Thomas Edison tkuerschner1 https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185729943 2024-10-24 12:45:58 UTC https://padlet.com/tkuerschner1/u8n2ia1qm7ys5f2a/wish/3185729943