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Today we fished the story of us. Over 12 million immergents passed the Statue of Liberty. Steel was very important in the 20th century.  Steel allowed them to build a lot higher because it was stronger.  Nothing could happen if steel cant be massed produced.  in 1902 there are 65 skyscrapers being produced in mananton .two rough neck out of five did not make it.  The urburn city growed 87 times over, In Chicago it incresded to 1.7 million. Gangsters, thefives made crime rate go way up. You could rent the gun by the hour or buy the gun for 12 dollars.  100 dollars if the cop killed on of these bad peoples.  Criminals are random don't know who they are.  Burns changed the way cops find criminals. 12million are taken each year national. Family crowed in houses streets filled with human waste. Tenemmetns sold as little as a dollar. In New York 40,000 people died each year because of Diseases. They cleaned 440 miles of dump. In 1907 every major city has sewers. He was the first person to use a REND lab. Edison locks himself in lab to figer out how to make a electric light bulb.  He found 2000 ways to not make a light bulb but one way to work it. Piece of Caberatied cardboard.  In just two years he made 5000 power plants.

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