Labor day!! no school!!
Notes from this weekend on my project:
Source: the book
OIL:
-Pattillo Higgins was the first to find oil in the U.S.
-he found it near spindle top, which is a hill near Beaumont Texas
_ If it was oil an Industrial City would form around it
- As a lumber merchant he couldnt convince people of what he had found, but he didnt give up
-Captain Anthony F. Lucas believed Higgins and became the 1st investor and many more followed
-In the Fall of 1900 they began to drill
- After many months of difficult work on the morning of Janusary,10th 1901 oil gushed out of the well, this started the Texas oil boob
Natural Resources:
-After the Civial War the Us was still largely an agricultural nation
-by the 1920's almost 60 yrs after the civial war we became the leading industrial power in the world
-This was because of several factors....these included a weath of natural resources, government supposrt for businesses and the growing urban population all of this provided both cheap labor an dmarkets for new products to come out
BLACK GOLD!! aka OIL:
-Native americans used oil before we even came over here.
-originally we didnt really have any use for it
-in 1840's we started using kerosene for light from lamps
-Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner discovered how to distill the fuel from oil or coal
- In 1859 Dewin L. Drake successfully used a steam engine to drill oil near the town of Titusville Pennsivania
-this started the oil boom in Kentucky, ohio, illinois, Indiana, and later in Texas
-Petroleum refining industries arose in Cleveland and Pittsburg as entrepreneurs rushed in to transform oil into kerosene
- Gasoline was a biproduct and was originally thrown away!!
- after cars were invented gasoline became the leading form of oil
IRON:
the Bessemer Steel Process:
-oil was not the only natural resource that was plentiful in the united states
- Iron and Coal we also plentiful
-in 1887 prospectors discovered Iron ore deposites that were more than 100 miles long and up to 3 miles wide into the Mesabi Range of Minnesota
-at the same time the coal production sky rocketed from 33 million in 1870 to more than 250 million in 1900
-Iron i sa dense metal but it's soft an dit tends to break and rust
- it also contains carbon
- If you remove the carbon in the iron you will get a ighter more flixible and rust free metal called steel
- the supplies need to make steel were ready and it was fairly cheap process it was also effficent
- the Bessemer process was develped by Henry Bessemer who was a british manufactor and his partner was the american Iron man William Kelly
-around 1850 it became widely used
-their technique was to inject air into the molten iron the remove carbon and any tohter impurities
-by 1880 american manufacturers were using this method to produce more than 90% of the nations steel
- in this age stuff was always changing and it was a rapid innovation, even the Bessemer process was made better by the 1860's
-it was eventually replaced by the open-hearthed process which enabled producers to provided quality steel from scrap metal as well as raw material
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