Vozick's US History

Inventions! Innovations! How has the telephone changed the most since it was invented? It has changed by ________________. Predict how it will change 100 years from today. It will _____________________________. Finish your charts from yesterday.    You will have 5 minutes to get with everybody to fill in your answers.  Inventions and their Inventors in the 2 nd Industrial Age You will choose an invention to research . You will then create a PowerPoint or Prezi. This PowerPoint must be accurate and provide an in-text citation where necessary. You must have at least one picture per slide.    If you need help finding an invention: go here or here or here or here . Be careful here as not everything was from the Gilded Age.   What invention did you pick? I picked __________________. Who is the inventor? The inventor is _________________. One thing I learned today about my invention/inventor was _______________.

To get an idea of the significance of some of the inventions of this period, let us compare the impact of a few of the inventions today to the impact inventions around the turn of the century might have had on  people’s lives. Which do you think had a greater impact on the people of its time: MP3 players or the phonograph? Which do you think had a greater impact on the people of its time: cell phones or the telegraph?   Which do you think had a greater impact on the people of its time: the Internet or electricity? Group  Activity: At your tables, we will read and fill in the charts around Chapters 2-5. Grab a Chromebook rfschools.schoology.com go to courses/American History Gilded  Age Materials Big Business and the Government/An Explosion of Industrial Growth/New Inventions and Technologies/The Gilded Age   Was industrialism good for industrialists, workers economy, and the environment? Why or why not? Industrialism was