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.
Answer:
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.
