Name:
Class:
Date:
Industrial Revolution Project
Inventions of the Industrial Age/Revolution
Directions: Create a booklet, using each of the questions below as a guideline to a page. Your booklet should
be well-written with complete sentences. Be Creative.
1. Find an invention developed during the Industrial Revolution between 1830-1900.
2. What is the date (year) of the invention?
3. Who is the inventor or major producer?
4. What need or purpose did this invention address?
5. Find or draw a picture of the first one.
6. How has this invention evolved for the modern world?
7. What does it look like today? Find a picture?
8. How has in contributed to society? Positives? Negatives?
9. What types of jobs did it help promote? Think of the chain of people affected.
10. Was it a success or failure?
11. List your sources. (use easybib.com)
*Extra credit for a “real” visual when applicable. You can make it, bring a model/replica, or bring in the
actual product.
These are suggestions (you are also encouraged to find your own)
cash register
oil well
kerosene lamp
typewriter
roller skates
air conditioning
motor wagon
oil pipeline
submarine
electro magnetic motor
offset printing
Gillette “shaving” razor
reaping machine
barbed wire
canned goods process
sewing machine
subway system
player piano
threshing machine
structural steel bridge
bobbin
mimeograph
airplane
sugar evaporation
system
power tools
telephone
1908 Model T
paint tube
phonograph
automatic hat
electric train car
hearing aid
refrigerator railroad car
ether anesthesia
electric dental drill
escalator
vulcanized rubber
incandescent light bulb
gas powered car
telegraph
electric fan
zipper
false teeth
rollercoaster
You must get approval for your invention!
Due date: Monday 3/17/14
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Your Choice is:
Name:
Hour:
Creativity
_____/5
Mini Presentation
_____/5
Neatness
_____/5
Visuals
_____/5
Contains all information requested
_____/20
Extra credit
_____
Total Point possible
_____/40
kinetoscope
cylinder printing press
skyscraper
Kodak camera
passenger elevator
“platter record”
dishwasher
burglar alarm
bicycle
straight pin
mechanical calculator
bobby pin