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Bessemer received the first patent for the Bessemer Process. Steel had long been produced by melting iron, adding carbon, and removing impurities. The Bessemer proces made it much easier adn cheaper to remove the impurities.
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The Bessemer Process made possible the mass production: or production in great amounts, of steel.
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A railway that began construction this year, extending from coast to coast. when it began it already reached from East Coast to the Mississippi River.
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Westinghouse developed more effective air brakes. helping improve safety for train travel.
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Railroads could carry goods and passengers from coast to coast, but they still had problems. But train travel continued to improve, steel replaced iron for example.
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Edison and his team, invented house electrical lighting, replacing oil lamps and gaslights.
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To attract investors, Edison built a power plant that lit dozens of buildings in New York City.
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Inventor George Westinghouse, was experimenting with another form of electricity, Alternating Current: cheaper than direct current(which Edison uses) and can travel farther distances.
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Woods patented a telegraph system for communicating with moving trains, thus reducing the risk of collison.
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Thanks to Edisons and his teams work, power stations across the country provided electricity for lamps, fans, printing presses, and many other newly invented appliances.
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Gavrilo Princip shot Ferdinands wife (Sophie) and she died instantly, then shot Ferdinand once and in minutes he died. Gavrilo tried committing suicide but was caught.