First African American millionaireĩ Age of Invention African American Inventers Lewis Latimer:Ĭreated a longer lasting light bulb Garret Morgan Invented the gas mask and the traffic signal. Edwin Laurentine Drake ( 1819 - 1880 ), souvent appel colonel Drake bien que n’ayant jamais rellement dtenu ce grade, tait un entrepreneur amricain dont on dit souvent qu'il a for le premier vritable puits de ptrole amricain 1 le, dans le champ d’ Oil Creek, au sud de Titusville (Pennsylvanie). Walker: Invented remedial shapes to help with scalp disease. Important because of how crowded city apartments were. Charles Sholes: Invented the typewrite and the first keyboard.Ĩ Age of Invention Women Inventors: Sarah Goode: Madam C.J. Thomas Edison was an inventor interested in uses of electricity. In addition to oil, electricity became a source of light and power. Oil was also important in Ohio and West Virginia. Oil quickly became big business in Pennsylvania. Wright Brothers: Invented the first airplane. he successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania and started the oil boom. Drake’s Titusville, Pennsylvania, oil well started producing 20 barrels of oil a day. Invented interchangeable parts and the assembly line. Doing away with the oil made from whale fat.ħ Age of Invention Other Invention: Henry Forde: Wright Brothers: Drake to Titusville, Pennsylvania, to drill for oil. Drake drilled the worlds first oil well on the banks of Oil Creek. It burned the derrick, all the stored oil, and the driller's home. fields, but because the Chinese had invented it 2000 years before. Lightbulb Filled over 1000 patents in his lifetime.ĭeveloped the first oil drilling machine. business leaders, created an explosion of inventions and improvements. Drake's biggest setback occurred on Octowhen the first oil well fire was started by 'Uncle Billy,' who went to inspect the oil in the vat with an open lamp, setting the gases alight. Alexander Graham Bell: Developed the Telephone, so you communicate over long distance with natural speech.ĥ Age of Invention Electricity Thomas Edisonĭeveloped the Phonograph, an audio recording device. Invented the telegraph allowing messages to be sent over long distances instantly Cyrus Fields: Developed the transatlantic cable, able to send telegraph to Europe instantly. Railroad connected raw materials to factories, and factories to consumers.ģ Age of Invention Steel Bessemer Process: Created by Henry BessemerĤ Age of Invention Communication Samuel Morse: Cyrus Fields: George Westinghouse: Invented the air brake, making travel much safer. He was born in Greenville, New York on March 11, 1819. Presentation on theme: "Age of Invention."- Presentation transcript:Ģ Age of Invention Railroads George Pullman: George Westinghouse: Edwin Laurentine 'Colonel' Drake (1819-1880), an American oil driller, is popularly credited with having 'discovered' oil.
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