Chapter 22, Section 1 : Life in the industrial Age

telegraph

A device that uses pulses of electrical current to send messages on wires over long distances.

Bessemer Process

A process developed in the 1850's in which air is forced through molten metal to burn off carbon and other impurities in order to make the resulting steel stronger.

Samuel Morse

A scientist and inventor who applied discoveries about electricity and magnetism to develop the telegraph.

Henry Ford

An American business man who invented the assembly line, and the Model T car. The use of the assembly line made the cars far more affordable and available to the middle class.

Thomas Edison

An American scientist and inventor who invented the light bulb, and founded the first power plant in Niagara Falls, NY.

Alexander Graham Bell

An American teacher and scientist who developed the telephone.

Guglielmo Marconi

An Italian physicist who established first communications across the English Channel between England and France.

Michael Faraday

The scientist who discovered the connection between magnetism and electricity.

Wilbur and Orville Wright

Two American inventors who planned and built the first gas powered airplane capable of sustained flight