James B. Duke once moved to Charolette and started a new industry. He also built dams across the Catawba River to generate what is known as electricity. He sold this power to nearby mills that carried textiles. Most of the Industrial growth was focused in tobacco, textiles and also furniture. The Duke family made Durham one of the biggest sources of the nations cigarettes. Gaston County also became the main source of textiles. The Hanes Brothers in Winston-Salem built knitting mills that made under clothing such as socks and underwear. More than a dozen towns had at least 10,000 people living nearby by 1910. To handle the industrial progress the state had to be organized. That means that many people had to eduacated and also behave in new ways. The white leaders used the politics to actually accomplish these goals.
Invention
inventor
date
Band-aid
Earle Dickson
1920
Q-tips
Leo Gerstenzang
1920
Traffic Light
William Potts
1920
Air Brakes
George Westinghouse
1868.
Radio/Television Transmission
Ernst Alexanderson
1920
Car with Combustion Engine
Henry Ford
1920
Airship
Henri Giffard
1900
Aspirin
Dr. Felix Hoffman
1899
Atom
Ernest Rutherford
1911
Chewing gum
Thomas Adams
1870
Wright Brothers
The Wright brothers real names are Orville and Wilbur Wright. There parents names were Bishop Milton Wright and Susan Catherine Wright. Their father had made the place Dayton there home, where he was the editor of a newspaper published by Church. The wright brothers family moved constantly. They kept on with life and decided that one day they wanted to create a plane and this was in the year of 1905 and could fly for more than half an hour at a time. The brothers never married anyone and Wilbur died at the age of 45 and Orville died by a heart attack at age 77.
James B. Duke once moved to Charolette and started a new industry. He also built dams across the Catawba River to generate what is known as electricity. He sold this power to nearby mills that carried textiles. Most of the Industrial growth was focused in tobacco, textiles and also furniture. The Duke family made Durham one of the biggest sources of the nations cigarettes. Gaston County also became the main source of textiles. The Hanes Brothers in Winston-Salem built knitting mills that made under clothing such as socks and underwear. More than a dozen towns had at least 10,000 people living nearby by 1910. To handle the industrial progress the state had to be organized. That means that many people had to eduacated and also behave in new ways. The white leaders used the politics to actually accomplish these goals.
Wright Brothers
The Wright brothers real names are Orville and Wilbur Wright. There parents names were Bishop Milton Wright and Susan Catherine Wright. Their father had made the place Dayton there home, where he was the editor of a newspaper published by Church. The wright brothers family moved constantly. They kept on with life and decided that one day they wanted to create a plane and this was in the year of 1905 and could fly for more than half an hour at a time. The brothers never married anyone and Wilbur died at the age of 45 and Orville died by a heart attack at age 77.