AMERICAN INVENTIONSThe Dawn of the Modern Era

THE TYPEWRITERInvented in 1874 by Christopher Scholes

TELEPHONEAlexander Graham Bell

BELL AND HIS ASSISTANT SHOWING OFF THEIR FIRST TELEPHONE

1892 FIRST PHONE CALLNY TO Chicago

FIRST SUBWAY , NY CITY1870’s

PHONOGRAPH

THOMAS EDISON PROTOTYPE

THOMAS EDISON INCANDESCENT LIGHT

ORIGINAL DESIGNS

MAIL ORDER CATALOG

GEORGE EASTMAN---KODAK CAMERA

DANIEL BURNHAM AND LOUIS SULLIVAN

Flat Iron Building NY CITY Guaranty Building Buffalo NY 1894

EDWIN DRAKE

Titusville Pennsylvania---first steam powered oil drill

GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE

Invented the Alternator and the Airbrake for trains. He is also credited with investigating electric current and safer ways of handling electricity

BROOKLYN BRIDGE

Longest Suspension Bridge in the world for many years.

Completed at great cost in 1883

WRIGHT FLYER

1903 The Wright Brothers of Ohio came to Kitty Hawk NC to test their powered flyer.

First Powered Flight

HENRY FORDHe didn’t invent the car. He simply mass produced it cheaply so everyone could afford one.

TUSKEEGE INSTITUTEOne of many Black Colleges opened during reconstructionMade famous by its many high level graduates and talented professors!

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERFamous for Chemistry and experiments for using peanuts for various purposes in order to improve agriculture and science

MEN OF ACTION

BOOKER T WASHINGTON W.E.B. DU BOIS