Rise of Big Business and the Triumph of Industry: 1870-1900
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US History [1]
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industry [11]
AP US History Chapter 18: Rise of Big Business and the Triumph of Industry: 1870-1900 What were the key innovations that contributed to the triumph of industrialization between 1865 and 1900? largest steam engine was providing power to machines that spun cotton, combed wool, printed newspapers, made shoes, pumped water, and other stuff Alexander Graham Bell?s telephone Thomas Alva Edison?s incandescent lamp and phonograph machine gun cable car electric street light Linotype machine -population rose from under 40 mil to 75 mill gross national product(GNP) more than tripled farmers grew from 2 mill in 1860 to 5.75 mill in 1900 farming became huge and they were producing alot in the mid west and cali more land was under cultivation