What do you think was the most important invention in history

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Warm-Up

• What do you think was the most important
  invention in history?
• Explain.

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Objective

• Students will understand the effects of
  inventions in reshaping American culture by
  creating an advertisement.

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Homework Review

• Chapter 20
• Section 3 Review
• 1 2, pg 547

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Identify (a) Cyrus Field, (b) Alexander
GrahamBell, (c) Thomas Edison, (d) Jan
Matzeliger,(e) Gustavus Swift, (f) George
Eastman, (g) HenryFord, (h) Orville and Wilbur
Wright.
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Cyrus Field

• The person who completed the laying of the
  underwater transatlantic telegraph cable that
  helped to bring Europe and the United States
  together.

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(b) Alexander GrahamBell

• The inventor of the telephone had been a teacher
  of the deaf.

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(c) Thomas Edison

• The Wizard of Menlo Park invented the light
  bulb, the phonograph, and hundreds of other
  devices.

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(d) Jan Matzeliger

• In 1883, Jan Matzeliger invented a machine that
  could perform almost all the steps in shoemaking.

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(e) Gustavus Swift

• Gustavus Swift introduced refrigeration to the
  meat industry.

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(f) George Eastman

• In 1888, George Eastman introduced the
  lightweight Kodak camera.

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(g) Henry Ford

• Henry Ford introduced a method of production in
  which workers add parts to a product as it moves
  past them on a belt.
• Through mass production on the assembly line
  Henry Ford made it possible for more people to
  own cars.

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(h) Orville and Wilbur Wright.

• In 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright tested a
  flying machine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

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2. Define (a) assembly line, (b) mass production.
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(a) assembly line

• method of production in which workers add parts
  to a product as it moves along on a belt

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2. (b) mass production

• making large quantities of a product quickly
  and cheaply

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20.3 Overview
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Assignment
Creative Advertising

• Pick an invention from Chapter 20 Section 3 that
  you think had the biggest impact on reshaping
  American culture.
• Create an advertisement that explains what it is,
  who made it and how it reshaped America.

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Homework

• Chapter 20
• Section 3 Review
• 3-7, pg 547

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Expansion into an Industrial Economy