WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
ROBBER BARONS
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Thomas Edison created the public educational system and water utilities.
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Thomas Edison developed electricity and invented the hydroelectric dam.
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Thomas Edison patented many of the inventions and founded General Electric.
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Thomas Edison built practical ways to apply te steam engine to mass production.
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Detailed explanation-1: -His inventions included the phonograph, the carbon-button transmitter for the telephone speaker and microphone, the incandescent lamp, the first commercial electric light and power system, an experimental electric railroad, and key elements of motion-picture equipment.
Detailed explanation-2: -He invented the electric locomotive, phonograph, electric pen and copying system, kinetoscope, improved the telephone and improved the stock ticker and most importantly he invented the electric light bulb.
Detailed explanation-3: -Edison’s experiments with the telephone and the telegraph led to his invention of the phonograph in 1877. It occurred to him that sound could be recorded as indentations on a rapidly-moving piece of paper. He eventually formulated a machine with a tinfoil-coated cylinder and a diaphragm and needle.
Detailed explanation-4: -By January 1879, at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, Edison had built his first high resistance, incandescent electric light. It worked by passing electricity through a thin platinum filament in the glass vacuum bulb, which delayed the filament from melting.
Detailed explanation-5: -How did Thomas Edison contribute to the Industrial Revolution? He invented a machine for separating cotton fibers from seeds.