Industrial+Progress

__//**Industrial Progress:**//__ A man named James B. Duke started a new industry in Charlotte, hydroelectricity. He built many dams with hydroelectric power plants along the Catawba River. The entire NC Peidmont benefited from this power source. In NC, industrial growth was centered around tobacco, textiles, and furniture. Towns grew rapidly, and the populations soared, as well as new, fresh ideas and businesses. They allways competed with each other, the towns, and called itself the most progressive. New businesses began to rival old ones. For example, Winston-Salem started to rival Durham for most of the nations cigarettes.


 * //__Inventions__//**
 * **Invention** || **Inventor** || **Date** ||
 * Light Bulb || Thomas Edison || 1879 ||
 * Petrolium Jelly || Robert Chesebrough || 1870's ||
 * Phonograph || Thomas Edison || 1877 ||
 * Animation, Motion Picture || J. Stuart Blackton || 1906 ||
 * Airplane, engine-powered || Wilbur and Orville Wright || 1903 ||
 * air conditioning || Willis Haviland Carrier || 1902 ||
 * blow-dryer || Racine Universal Moter Co., Hamilton Beach Manufactoring Co. || 1920 ||
 * camera, motion picture || Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson || 1891 ||
 * camera, portable photographic || George Eastman || 1888 ||
 * cash register || James Ritty || 1879 ||

Orville and Wilbur Wright were two bicicle repairmen from Dayton, Ohio. They had both been interested in flight from an early age, and after hearing about some glider experiments by a man in Germany, Otto Lilienthal, they took an interest in flight. The brothers would dream of a glider powered by an engine, and their current occupation gave them a sufficient background understanding of practical mechanics to do so. The brothers worked dilligently on this project, it consuming both their thougths and time. They experimented with gliders, models and engines, and gathered new data and worked on the acheivements of others. The wrights tested an unsuccessful device at Kitty Hawk in 1900, which could not produce sufficient lift. Determined to be the first to experience manned flight, when the brothers returned to Dayton they built the first wind tunnel in the US and tested over 200 wing designs. In 1902, they made over a thousand flights on a new glider during their next trip to Kitty Hawk. The bros even built their own 4 cylinder 12 horsepower engine and installed it in a new device. In yet another journey to Kitty Hawk, they finally made history. On December 17, 1903, all their work paid off. They had built the first heavier than air, powered aircraft and made 4 successful flights. Orville and Wilbur recieved a patent for their machine in 1906.
 * //__Wright Bros.__//**

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