Age of innovations and industry

in September 1878, a young inventor from Melon Park Jersey , went to see a set of experimental arc lights.The lights were too hot and bright for the daily used , but they fascinated him . The more he studied the lights and the generator that powered them , the more exited he became.

new business technology

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• business leaders and formed corporations to attract capitals from investors , who became owners by buying stock.they improved production methods in order to mass-productions more goods in less time .By reused competition by forming monopolies and trust.

REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES IN COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORTATION

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• BY 1837,Samuel F.B Morse created the first practical telegraph , it to send messages by electrical signal , he used a dot and dash system later known as "morse code"
• 1843 the telegraph line was used as railroads track it was also used to gather information and send to local newspaper.
• 1876 in March 10 he first telephone message was the result of an emergency , with Bell calling out to his lab assistant , Watson , atter accidentally apilling acid.

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• In 1990 , nearly million miles of telegraph wires were carrying more than 60 millions messages a year.
• In 1903 the brothers Orville and Wilbur writing made the first successful powered airplane flights in history , new kitty hawnk , North Carolina.

Abraham Pineo Gesner

"Rock oil"

• Prudes a new source of fuel
• 1800's a Canadian scientist discoverd how to retine crude oil was limited

An Explosion of industrial growth

The grown of technology and electric power network helped fuel the expansion of american industry in the late 1800's

"new ways to manege works"
By the early 1800's , factories were using interchangeable part to produce goods in large quantities .
After the civil war the owners improve the methods of mass production.

This approach called for joining together as many firms from the same industry as possible

This involved taking control of each step in the production and distribution of a protect

"laissez-faire"
The federal government generally adopted a laissez-faire policy towards bussiness . This hands off approach reflected a belief in social parwinsm . The sherman antitrust act was only feebly enforced

"social Darwinism"
Social Darwinism argued that the government should leave businesses alone to succeed of fail on their own.

"Shermans antitrust act"
In 1890 the congress passed the shermans which out lawed trust , and monopolies and other form of business that restricted trade