Gilded Age: 2nd Industrial Revolution by Lydia Kelley https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637 en-us 2024-10-24 12:10:50 UTC 2024-10-25 12:55:20 UTC hello@padlet.com 1790: 90% of America's population lived on farms/rural areas. lydiakelley1 https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3185697187 2024-10-24 12:26:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3185697187 1891: There were over 1,300 stations providing enough electricity to power about 3 million light bulbs emmaterry5 https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3185705582 2024-10-24 12:31:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3185705582 1865: End of Civil War- horses and buggy's, candles and oil lamps, kept food in a cabinet with a block of ice, and waited months for letters to arrive or cross the country. lydiakelley1 https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3185712023 2024-10-24 12:36:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3185712023 1900: Nearly a million miles of telegraph wires were carrying more than 60 million messages a year emmaterry5 https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3185721960 2024-10-24 12:41:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3185721960 1876: Alexander Graham Bell and his telephone. lydiakelley1 https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3185723399 2024-10-24 12:42:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3185723399 1879: Edison's light bulb invention. lydiakelley1 https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3185730243 2024-10-24 12:46:10 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3185730243 1900: Menay Americans illuminated their homes with electic lights, kept food cold in an electric refrghraph or telephone. a few could even afford to replace their horse and buggy a new automobile emmaterry5 https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3185739458 2024-10-24 12:51:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3185739458 1903: the brothers Orville and Wilbur wright made the firt successful powered-airplane flights in history, neat Kitty Hawk, North Carolina emmaterry5 https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3185746342 2024-10-24 12:55:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3185746342 1920: The number of commercial tekephones had grown to at 13 million. emmaterry5 https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3186181662 2024-10-24 17:22:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3186181662 1883-1885: The Brooklyn Bridge was made above the East River, NY. Then, two years later, the first skyscraper was made. Both of these structures were made out of steel. Both were created by Henry Bessemer and Andrew Carnegie. lydiakelley1 https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3186184276 2024-10-24 17:24:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3186184276 1920: More than 50% of americans lived in towns and cities then in rural areas emmaterry5 https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3186184955 2024-10-24 17:24:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3186184955 1839: 130 years ago, by the llinois-born Charles and Frank Duryea emmaterry5 https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3186190616 2024-10-24 17:29:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3186190616 1877- Edison's first phonograph lydiakelley1 https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3186197492 2024-10-24 17:34:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiakelley1/yl17on8tz0fri637/wish/3186197492