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AP US History
Unit 6 – Industrialization and the Gilded Age, 1865–1898
Topic 6.5
How might industrialization in the United States during the late 19th century look different if Thomas Edison hadn't invented the electric light bulb?
Industrialization wouldn't have occurred without electricity-based appliances and machines.
Production lines may have remained dependent on daylight or gaslight, limiting productivity potentials.
Factories and production lines would've stuck to traditional hand tools and manual labor.
There wouldn't be any significant changes; other inventors were working on similar technologies at that time.
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