Industrial Era Notes

Review of the Industrial Era

Rudyard Kipling

an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-short writer. Born in British India which inspired his works. Kipling’s work of fiction was the Jungle Book duopoly, Kim, the Just So stories, and many short stories.

Union Stock Yards

a centralized facility where livestock is brought by rail from farms and ranches to slaughtered and processed into meat. Was a key part to American meat-packing industry for over a century.

Great Chicago Fire of 1871

a devastating fire that destroyed a large portion of Chicago, killed hundreds of people and left many homeless.

National railroad mileage

the total length of railroad tracks in the country. in the late 19th-century, railroads were the major tracks in the country, and mileage grew as railroad growth grew rapidly.

Thomas Edison

a prominent American inventor, most recognized for developing groundbreaking technologies like the incandescent light bulb, phonograph,