Industrial+Progress

=__Industrial Progress__= James B. Duke moved to Charlotte adn started a new industry. He built dams across the Catawba River to generate electricity. Duke's first big customer was James W. Cannon. North Carolina Piedomont benefited from the hydroeletricity made by the Duke Power Company. Most of the industries in North Carolina was focused on tobacco, furniture, and textiles. Towns in North Carolina continued to grow rapidly and more than a dozen towns had at least 10,000 people living near by. There were alot of accomplishments during that time.


 * Person || Invention || Date ||
 * Alexander Graham Bell || Telephone || 1876 ||
 * Thomas Edison || Phonograph || 1877 ||
 * Thomas Edison || Incandescant Light Bulb || 1879 ||
 * Rudolf Diesel || diesel engine || 1892 ||
 * Henry Ford || Model T Ford || 1908 ||
 * Henry Ford || Assembly Line || 1913 ||
 * Nikola Telsa || Induction electric Motor || 1888 ||
 * Cyrus Field || Transatlantic Cable || 1889 ||
 * Orville and Wilbert Wright || Airplane || 1903 ||
 * Issac Singer || Improved Sewing Machine || 1892 ||

=__The Wright Brothers__=

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The Wright Brothers were the first people to successfully fly an airplane. Even though the first flight only lasted 12 seconds at was a big time in history for America but North Carolina too. They first heard about it when they read an article about an German man experimenting on gliders. This gave them the idea. So on December 7 the took there glider with a motors attached to the Outer Banks of North Carolina where people had gathered around to see what the men were trying to accomplish. So on December 7, 1903 they had the first flight.=====