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The Maiden Voyage of the Steamboat Clermont
The Clermont averaged close to 5 miles per hour for the 150 miles up the Hudson River to Albany, New York. The Clermont's first profitable venture in steam navigation, carrying passengers that paid to travel between Albany and New York City. -
The Locomotive
The first successful steam engine locomotive was built by the British Engineer George Stephenson called Blucher, which could haul up to 30 tons of coal at 4 mph going uphill. -
The Telegraph and Morse Code
Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse. The telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. This helped them communicate back and forth during times of war and between many different companies. -
The Transcontinental Railroad
The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,912 mile continuous railroad line that was constructed between 1863 and 1869. It connected the existing eastern U.S rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay. -
The Benz Patent-Motorwagen
German inventor Karl Benz patented his Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Cars became widely available in the early 20th century. -
The Wright Brothers Flyer
The Wright Flyer was the first successful heavier-than- air powered aircraft. It was designed and built by the Wright Brothers. The flew it four times on December 17, 1903, near Kill Devil Hills, about four miles south of Kitty Hawk, NC. -
Radio
The Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi built the first complete, commercially successful wireless telegraphy system based on airborne Hertzian waves. -
Television
Electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year old inventor who had lived in a house without electricity until he was 14. -
Opening of the Pennsylvania Turnpike
When the Pennsylvania Turnpike opened for business it was just 160 miles long stretching from Carlisle to Irwin. It included two-lane tunnels and Laurel Hill, Allegheny, Ray's Hill, Sideling Hill, Tuscarora, Kittatinny, and Blue Mountain. -
The World Wide Web (the Internet)
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web in 1991, while working at CERN. The web was originally conceived and developed to the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world. -
Amazon.com
Is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington, that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies along with Google, Apple, and Facebook. -
The Lehigh Canal
Location of the Lehigh Canal is Hugh Moore State Park in Easton, PA. Two Quaker businessman from Philadelphia, Josiah White and Erksine Hazard which lead the development of the Lehigh Canal. -
The Motorola StarTAC
Is the first ever clamshell mobile phone. The StarTAC is the successor of the MicroTAC, a semi-clamshell design first launched in 1989. Whereas the MicroTAC's flip folded down from below the keypad, the StarTAC folded up from above the display. -
Myspace
Myspace is an American social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. Myspace was the largest social networking site in the world from 2005 to 2008. It was headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. Founded by Tom Anderson, Chris DeWolfe, and Jon Hart. -
The iPhone
Is a smartphone made by Apple that combines a computer, iPod, digital camera and cellular phone into one device with a touchscreen interface. This is the revolutionized phone from the Motorola StarTAC. -
Instagram
A photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2019 exclusively on IOS. This is the revolutionized version of Myspace.
