The New Industrial Age - Part 1-2 Review

The first skyscraper with a steel frame

• Flatiron Building

• Home Insurance Building

He successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania making the removal of oil from beneath the earth's surface practical.

• Edwin Drake

• Andrew Carnegie

A by-product of the oil refinery process, this was originally thrown away. 

• Kerosene

• Gasoline

He invented Kerosene

• Dr. Abraham Gesner

• Edwin Drake

Developed around 1850, it involved injecting air into molten iron to remove carbon and other impurities.

• Open Hearth Process

• Bessemer Process

This was discovered in 1886 in the Merabi Range of Minnesota.

• Iron Ore Deposits

• Steel

Unions that included all the workers in a specific industry, skilled and unskilled. 

• Craft Unions

• Industrial Unions

The product that is created when you take carbon out of Iron resulting in a much lighter more flexible and rust resistant metal

• Pyrite

• Steel

He invented the telephone in 1876

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

This method of producing steel allowed manufacturers to produce quality steel from scrap metal as well as other raw materials.

• Bessemer Process

• Open Hearth Process