Module 4-4

Orville and Wilbur Wright

Brothers who flew the first airplane

Daniel Burnham

Chicago architect

City Planning

Daniel Burnham helped turn avoided areas into recreational ones

Frederick Law Olmsted

Developer of Central Park

Louis Sullivan

Early leader of architecture

Name two technological advances that helped make cities more livable.

Elevators, skyscrapers,

Food Supply

Fritz Haber helped develop food supply with refrigerated cars and fertilizer, allowing for more growing and distribution

Kodak Camera

George Eastman, with help from the original camera, allowed people to take pictures as events were happening

George Eastman

Inventor of the camera

Airmail

Wilbur/Orville Wright and planes, along with the internal combustion engine, allowed for faster mail delivery

Suspension Bridge

With the help of John Roebling, elevators and steel skeletons, it allowed for better and easier public transportation

Skyscraper

With the help of Louis Sullivan and Daniel Burnham, inventions like the steel skeleton and lightbulbs, Skyskrapers helped more people live on a smaller plot of land.

Name two inventions that helped change the world of communications.

printing press, camera

web-perfecting press

with huge amounts of paper from wood pulp, newspapers became cheaper.

Electric transit.

with the help of the lightbulb, it allowed for better and easier public transportation