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Essay
History Times: The Industrial Revolution
A Changing Nation
The second half of the nineteenth century can be described as a time of...
Essay
The Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
When in 1873 Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner entitled their co-authored novel The Gilded Age, they gave the late nineteenth century its popular name....
Glossary Term – Event
Phonograph invented
Thomas Edison invents the phonograph at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
Glossary Term – Event
Incandescent light bulb invented
Thomas Edison developed the incandescent light bulb.
Glossary Term – Person
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) was an American scientist and inventor. Edison, working from his research lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey, invented a myriad of significant technologies, among them the light bulb and the phonograph.