大三上学期英美况第九讲Technology.ppt

John H. Hall contributions to low cost of mass production in weapons and soon his system was deployed in the manufacture of mass consumption items, such as sewing machines, typewriters, and bicycles. Cyrus H. McCormick mechanical reaper: changing American agriculture from subsistence farming towards a food marketing enterprise Stevens family contributions in the history of transportation in early nineteenth century America, esp. in the field of railway transportation: shape of tracks, bonding of track joint, firm setting of ties, protection from water erosion, proper banking of curves Samuel F.B. Morse* telegraph Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell Invented the telephone. Information and messages could now be circulated at a faster pace over larger distances Late Nineteenth Century Thomas Alva Edison* Wizard of Menlo Park: electric light, division of electricity: developing parallel circuit as opposed to the series circuit Edison patented 1,093 inventions, earning him the nickname The Wizard of Menlo Park. The most famous of his inventions was an incandescent light bulb. Besides the light bulb, He also improved upon the original design of the stock ticker, the telegraph, and Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone. He believed in hard work, sometimes working twenty hours a day. Edison was quoted as saying, Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. In tribute to this important American, electric lights in the United States were dimmed for one minute on October 21, 1931, a few days after his death. Frederick Winslow Taylor He was an American engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency. He was one of the intellectual leaders of the Efficiency Movement and his ideas, broadly conceived, were highly influential in the Progressive Era. During the latter part of his career he was a management consultant, and he is sometimes called The Father of Scientific Management.