Industrial+Progress

= ﻿Industrial Progress = The new industry was started when James B. duke moved to Charlotte and in 1904 built dams across the Catawba River to generate electricity. He originally sold the energy to nearby textile mills and his first big customer was James W. Cannon, who had built a town he named Kannapolis, to take advantage of the situation in 1906. After a while, all of North Carolina in the Piedmont was benefitting from the hydroelectricity that was made by the Duke Power Company. The industrial growth was mostly centered around tobacco, textiles, and furniture. Most of the nation's cigarettes were manufactured in Durham because of the Duke family, but after 1913, Winston-Salem began to rival with Durham because of R. J. Reynolds and by the 1920s, Gaston County became the center of the textile industry with about 100 mills.


 * Invention || Inventor || Year || Country ||
 * Air conditioning || Willis Haviland Carrier || 1902 || United States ||
 * Animation, motion picture || J. Stuart Blackton || 1906 || United States ||
 * Answering machine, telephone || Valdemar Poulsen || 1898 || Denmark ||
 * Aspirin || Felix Hoffman (Bayer) || 1897 || Germany ||
 * Assembly Line || Henry Ford || 1913 || United States ||
 * Automobile || Gottlieb Daimler || 1889 || Germany ||
 * Bakelite || Leo Hendrik Baekeland || 1907 || United States ||
 * Barbed wire || Joseph Glidden || 1874 || United States ||