WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Refrigerated railroad cars allowed food to be transported long distances.
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Light bulbs made it efficient for factory workers to work at night.
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Diesel engines were used in the production of airplanes.
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Sonar technology was used to track submarines
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Detailed explanation-1: -One of the most famous and prolific inventors of all time, Thomas Alva Edison exerted a tremendous influence on modern life, contributing inventions such as the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera, as well as improving the telegraph and telephone.
Detailed explanation-2: -Q. Which application of a new technology can be attributed to an invention of Thomas Edison? Refrigerated railroad cars allowed food to be transported long distances.
Detailed explanation-3: -Inside the Secret Cities That Created the Atomic Bomb. The Manhattan Project, the program that developed the first nuclear weapons during World War II, worked out of three purpose-built cities in Tennessee, New Mexico, and Washington state.
Detailed explanation-4: -The consumer economy ground to a halt, and an ordinary recession became the Great Depression, the defining event of the 1930s.