New Jersey Chapter 7 Lesson 3 Inventions and Industry

patent

p document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention

Name three inventions of Thomas Edison

phonograph, light bulb, electric dynamo, ,motion picture camera, vote recorder, printing telegraph, typewriting machine, speaking telegraph, ,moving picture film

Read the "Many Voices" on page 18. What is one conclusion you could make about the life of a child who worked in a factory?

Factory work was noisy dangerous hard unpleasant

Facts and Ideas 1

Following the Civil War, industry grew rapidly in New Jersey.

Describe one way that new industries changed life in New Jersey after the Civil War,

More people lived in cities. Many people worked in factories. Some people could live in suburbs

Facts and Ideas 2

Thomas Edison invented many new products and developed the first research laboratory.

Facts and Ideas 3

Workers formed labor unions to win better pay and better working conditions.

labor uion

a group of workers united to gain better

What is a labor union?

an organization of workers fighting for fair working conditions such as better pay and shorter hours

Thomas Alva Edison

set up an invention factory man who invented the light bulb, the phonograph, and many other things invented numerous devices; the most well-known is his perfection of the electric light bulb in 1879.