Industrial+Progress

=//__**Industrial Progress**__//= Industrial Progress consisted of many progresses made in technology and daily living. A progress made back then was hydroelectricity which most of the North Carolina peidmont used. Most of the progress was centered around textiles, tobacco, and furniture. The Duke family made ciagarettes and Durham was the most important in tobacco. Gaston County was centered around textiles and had almost 100 mills in the 1920's. High Point was centered around furniture and had 33 furniture plants in 1900 and over a 100 by1913.


 * =**Inventions**= || =**Inventors**= ||
 * Velox photographic paper || Leo Hendrik Baekeland ||
 * Braille Typewriter || Frank Haven Hall ||
 * Paper Clip || Johann Vaaler ||
 * Escalator || Jesse W. Reno ||
 * Revolving Door || Theophilus Van Kannel ||
 * Telephone || Alexander Graham Bell ||
 * Tractor || John Froehlich ||
 * Vacuum Cleaner || John S. Thurman ||
 * Fountain Pen || Lewis E. Waterman ||
 * X-Ray || Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen ||

=__//**Wright Brothers**//__= ===The Wright Brothers were two brothers named Orville and Wilbur Wright they started as bicycle makers as their main job. The Wrights were interested in flight and wanted to build the first airplane, before they built the airplane they spent hours studying gliders and birds. They moved to Kitty Hawk to build and test their models this was because it was a privat spacious land. Orville and Wilbur experimented many outcomes and in December of 1903 Orville tested one of their models which lifted up into the air and stayed in the air for twelve seconds.===

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