Concepts of Industrial Revolution Crossword Puzzle

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Concepts of Industrial Revolution Crossword Puzzle

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  • railroad: transportation mode for moving goods on the earth's surface, whose development was one of the most important phenomena of the industrial revolution
  • rockefeller: last name of a person who founded the standard oil company
  • telegraph: a communication system that sends information by making and breaking an electrical connection.
  • immigration: mass relocation of a large number of people to a new country with the intention to reside in that country
  • oilfield: an area of land underlain by strata yielding petroleum, especially in amounts that justify commercial exploitation.
  • bessemer process: a method of steel making invented in 1855 that enabled steel to be made more cheaply and quickly.
  • light bulb: thomas edison's most famous invention
  • morse: last name of a person who created a telegraph
  • revolution: a radical change in the established order, usually the established government and social institutions
  • bell: last name of a person, who invented the telephone
  • vanderbilt: last name of a business magnate who was in railroads industry
  • edison: last name of a person who contributed inventions such as the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera, as well as improving the telegraph and telephone
  • carnegie: last name of a person who helped build the formidable american steel industry
  • capitalism: an economic system in which factories, equipment, and other means of production are privately owned rather than controlled by government
  • electricity: a form of energy resulting from the existence of charged particles
  • factory: a place where goods are manufactured mostly by machines
  • machines: physical systems who are using power to perform an action, which replaced a hand work
  • morgan: last name of a person who reorganized businesses to make them more profitable and stable and gaining control of them
  • textiles: production was the first great industry created.