Industrial+Progress

Industrial Progress James B Duke moved to Charlotte and started a new industry. After 1904, he built dams across the cawtaba River to generate electricity. Duke originally sold the power to nearby textile mills. Dukes first big customer James Cannon, who built a new town. In 1906 Kannapolis took advantage of the situation. Most of the industrial growth was concentrated on tobacco, textiles,and furniture. Because of the Duke Family, Durham became the source for most of the nations cigarettes. After 1913, due to R.J. Reyonalds, Winston Salem began to rival it. To handle 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. White leaders used politics to accomplish these goals.


 * Invention || Inventors ||
 * Air Conditioning || Carter ||
 * The automobile || Benz and Daimlar ||
 * Camera || George Eastman ||
 * Alternating-current electric generator || Nikola Tesla ||
 * electric light bulb || Henry Woodward and Mathew Evans ||
 * Motion pictures || Thomas A. Edison ||
 * Phonograph || Thomas A. Edison ||
 * Tape recorder || Valdemar Poulsen ||