promoting factors to the industrial boom
...en being refined into gasoline, which became the most important form of black gold. Other resources were coal and iron. These were major resources because they provided the nation its steel. In 1887, extreme amounts of iron ore deposits were discovered. At this same time coal production was making a major growth. Around 1850 a British manufacturer, Henry Bessemer, and an American iron maker, William Kelly, invented the Bessemer Process. This process made iron become lighter and more flexible, and rust resistant. Thanks to this process, in 1880, many manufacturers now used thus method to provide the nation with more than 90% of its steel. New uses cam about for Steel, therefore its production was increased. Railroads were there biggest customer, but more used were being found through the industrial boom. Barbed wire, farm machine and a revolution for food storage derived from the production of steel. One of the most remarkable productions of steel was the Brooklyn Bridge. Steel changed the country with its many benefits. As these natural resources provided more and more of them, inventions came about as well. One very big invention was the power of electricity. However, this was probably more of a discovery, which happened to be by Thomas Edison. It’s harnessing made a great impact on the nation. Electricity enabled machines to be power ran. Electricity allowed manufacturers to put their plants wherever they wanted. Industry now grew like it never had before. Wendell 2 Inspired inventions were the light bulb, invented by Thomas Edison, the typewriter, invented by Chris Sholes, and the most dramatic, the telephone, unveiled by Alexander Graham Bell. All of these invent...