Objective 7.04

Examine the impact of technological changes on economic, social, and

cultural life in the United States

Wright Brothers

• Orville and Wilbur, 1st in flight, bicycle shop owners

Airline Service

• 1st commercial use of plane was for mail delivery

Kodak Camera

• Camera developed by George Eastman, Camera could be bought for $25 and film could be developed and camera reloaded for $10

Movie Camera

• Moving pictures made possible by George Eastman and WK Dickson’s celluloid film

Coca Cola

• Drink developed by a drug store clerk as an energy drink and cure for headaches

Ford’s Innovations

• $5 day, assembly line, 8-10 hour workday, workers as consumers

Electricity

• Developed for home use by people like George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison

Mail Order Catalogs

• Sears and Roebuck, Montgomery Ward

Skyscrapers

• Public amazement at tall buildings, made possible by steel skeletons

Sewing Machine

• Made clothes making more economical, invented by Elias Howe and perfected by Isaac Singer

Quiz

• Electricity• Mail order catalogs• Kodak camera• Movie Camera• Wright Brothers• Ford’s Innovations:• Skyscrapers

Choose 4 SFI to define and answer 1 of the questions.

• What was the economic and social impact of the technological changes of the Progressive Era?

• How was American culture redefined during the Progressive Era?

• Does society cause government to change or does government cause society to change?