Invention-(2-7)

a.) Telephone. In the late 1800s the impact was minimal. Telephones were a novelty item and few homes had them. Pay phones were set up so people could use one when they had to. It help a lot in the 1800's because the government could communicate faster and know important things just like people could know emergencies faster than before.

b.) Electricity. The second Industrial Revolution utilized the power of electricity to help them develop their technology and help social and home life. The second Industrial Revolution utilized the power of electricity to help them develop their technology and help social and home life.

c.) Railroads. It made it profitable to farm in the plain states finally because the railroads owned so much cheap land due to Federal policies about selling land. So the railroads encouraged people to move west and start up farms on their land and ended up making even more money as a result.

d.) Bessemer process of steel production in industrial revolution is the first cheap method of making steel, invented Henry Bessemer in England in 1856. In the Bessemer process compressed air is blown into the bottom of a converter containing molten pig iron the excess carbon in the burns out, other impurities from a slag, and the furnace is emptied by tilting. Bessemer process became very popular because of making steel and earning a lot of money.