Question

What new technology helped create new jobs in the offices during the gilded ages

Answer 1

Following are given some new technologies that provided jobs to the masses in gilded age.

Transcontinental Railroad

The first transcontinental railroad joining Union Pacific and Central Pacific lines to the eastern networks. A lot of people got jobs in railways industry.

Carnegie Steel Plant

Andrew Carnegie opens his first steel plant, the Edgar Thompson Works, in Braddock, Pennsylvania. This plant was responsible for producing steel from pig-iron and they help drive the explosive growth of the American steel industry in the Gilded Age.

Telephone

Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone providing a boom to telecommunication industry.

1880 Non-Farmers

The U.S. government claimed that for the first time in American workforce is engaged in non-farming jobs due to the technological boom.

IBM

Herman Hollerith develops an electromagnetic tabulator that can read and analyze punch cards. The punch card reader was the first product of the company that becomes International Business Machines (IBM). Later on this IBM produced jobs for the people in its own computer industry.

Answer 2

Gilded age, as Mark Twain described it, was the period between 1876 and 1900 marked by rapid economic growth, where industry and work were dominant.

The Inventions of that era changed America.

In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

This invention helped create new jobs, especially for women who started working as switchboard operators.