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Chapter 6-1: The Age of Invention

Key Terms:
 * Bessemer process: William Kelly developed a method of steel making that burned off the impurities in molten iron with a blast of hot air
 * Patent: a guarantee to protect an inventor's right to make, use, or sell the invention
 * Transcontinental Railroad: country's first in 1869
 * Trunk lines: major railroads
 * Telegraph: developed by Samuel F. B. Morse as a means of communicating over wires with electricity

Key People:
 * Edwin L. Drake: used steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1859
 * Elijah McCoy: made significant contribution to the industrial use of oil
 * George Westinghouse: developed a compressed-air brake
 * Alexander Graham Bell: invented the telephone
 * Thomas Alva Edison: pioneer of communications technology. invention was telegraph that could send up to four messages over the same wire simultaneously
 * Lewis Latimer: Edison's assistant

Key events: Industrial Innovations Transportation: Communications
 * Process of converting iron ore into steel too expensive, 1850s Henry Bessemer and William Kelly developed a method of steel making that burned off the impurities in molten iron with a blast of hot air
 * Edwin L. Drake: used steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1859
 * Elijah McCoy: made significant contribution to the industrial use of oil
 * Patent: a guarantee to protect an inventor's right to make, use, or sell the invention
 * Transcontinental Railroad: country's first in 1869
 * Trunk lines: major railroads
 * George Westinghouse: developed a compressed-air brake
 * Telegraph: developed by Samuel F. B. Morse as a means of communicating over wires with electricity
 * Alexander Graham Bell: invented the telephone
 * Thomas Alva Edison: pioneer of communications technology. invention was telegraph that could send up to four messages over the same wire simultaneously