This lab requires you to visit three different sites about the Industrial Revolution and answer some basic questions about this period:

http://members.aol.com/mhirotsu/kevin/trip2.html

1. (essay) What dramatic change occurred during the Industrial Revolution (IR)?

 

2. (essay) What were some negative effects of the IR on human life?

 

3. (essay) Describe cottage industries?

 

4. (essay) What were the positives and negatives of cottage industries?

6. (essay) How did mass production affect the price of goods?

 

7. (essay) How did steam engines affect transportation and the location of cities?

 

8. (essay) What power source was the key to the second IR?

 

9. (essay) How did electricity improve life and communication?

 

10. (essay) List two major scientific advances made during the IR?

 

11. (essay) List two major medical advances made during the IR?

 

12. (essay) Briefly describe the conditions that people lived and worked in?

 

Two of the most influential inventors of the Industrial Revolution were Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison. Go to the following site to answer these questions about Thomas Edison.

http://www.si.edu/lemelson/edison/html/thomas_alva_edison.html

13. (his life) What was his first patented invention? Why was it a failure?

 

14. (his inventions) List the three Edison inventions you feel were most important and Why you feel that way.

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15. (His Thoughts) Choose the one quote of Edison that most appeals to you and tell why?

 

  

Go to the following site about Alexander Graham Bell:

http://www.att.com/technology/forstudents/brainspin/

16. How did Bell’s teaching of the deaf influence his invention of the telephone?