Industrial+Progress

__**Industrial Progress**__ James B. Duke moved to Charlotte and started a new industry. He built dams across the Catawaba River to generate electricity after 1904. He origiganly sold the power to textile mils. The whole North Carolina Piedmont beniftied for the hydroelectricity made by what became the Duke Power Company. Most of the industrial growth was concentratedin tobacco, textiles, and furniture. The Duke family caused Durhamto become the source for most of the nation's cigarettes. Towns continued to grow rapidly. To handle the industrial growth, the state had to be more organized. That meant that people had to be educated in the new ways and influenced to behave in new ways.


 * Invention || Year || Inventor ||
 * Air Conditioner || 1902 || Willis Carrier ||
 * Vacum Cleaner || 1901 || Hubert Booth ||
 * Crayons || 1903 || Edward Binney and Harold Smith ||
 * Tractor || 1904 || Benjamin Holt ||
 * Teabags || 1904 || Thomas Sullivan ||
 * Windsheild Wipers || 1903 || Mary Anderson ||
 * Helicopter || 1907 || Paul Cornu ||
 * Instant Coffee || 1909 || G. Washington ||