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The industrial age is when machines became popular and many inventions were coming about.

from1860-1890 over 440 000 patents are issued in the United States:

Cash register

Stock ticker

Typewriter

Refrigerated railcar - improved the transportation of meat and produce

Electric railway - invented by Frank Sprague

Sewing machine

During this time period, many notable inventions were created and perfected:

1. Telephone

[1876] invented by Alexander Graham Bell

2. Frederick W. Taylor (Father of "scientific management") studies the movements of coal operators and designs the perfect motions for different jobs

3. Thomas Alva Edison creates the following:

-phonograph

-electric light bulb

-kinetoscope [pre-cursor of the motion picture]

-stock ticker?

-Electric chair - Edison wanted to use AC electricity to embarrass Westinghouse on a debate; Edison supported DC electricity and invented the electric chair that used AC electricity in the hopes of scaring people

Inventions and technology lead to Mass Production on a consumer scale which leads to advertising:

-Quaker Oats

-Heinz Ketchup

-Campbell Soup [from Camden, NJ]

-Kodak

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