What can you infer (guess) about how telegraphs might have transformed businesses?
Companies could operate across greater distances and still be controlled from a central office.
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What does a patent do?
Lets an inventor have control of their idea for a time
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What does âmass productionâ mean?
Making lots of the same item using set parts and steps
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Explain how Edisonâs electric light both solved problems and created new challenges for people and communities. In your answer, describe two different kinds of effects (one social or daily-life effect and one economic or labor effect)
Solved a daily-life problem (social/daily effect),Created a new daily-life challenge (social/daily effect), Helped the economy and jobs (economic/labor effect)
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What is one problem that happened because of machines in factories?
Some workers lost their old skills and jobs
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Electrification Data Chart
1900-1920
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What is the main difference between an invention and an innovation?
An invention is a new thing; an innovation is a new way to use or spread it.
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Why did new technology speed up during the World Wars?
Countries paid people to invent new tools for the war
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what can we learn from looking at how electricity spread to American homes over time?
New technology, especially electricity, starts slow and then spreads faster, until almost everyone has it.
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How did the telephone help businesses?
It let people talk quickly and arrange sales or deliveries
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"several of my comrades lament the loss of varied craftsmanship." What does this show us about workers' feelings?
They missed using different unique skills in their work.
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About what percentage of homes had electricity by 1940?
