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Steam Engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. It is the iconic invention of the industrial revolution. Experiments in the seventeenth century turned, by the middle of the nineteenth, into a technology which powered huge factories, allowed deeper mines and moved a transport network. -
The maiden voyage of the steamboat Clermont
The Clermont averaged close to 5 miles per hour for 150 miles up to the Hudson river to Albany New York. the steam boat was a better and for efficient way for transportation. -
Lehigh Canal
The Lehigh Canal or the Lehigh Navigation Canal is a navigable canal, beginning at the mouth of Nesquehoning Creek on the Lehigh River in Eastern Pennsylvania. Made transportation easier on land and faster then horse and buggy. -
The telegraph and Morse Code
Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations -
The Transcontinental Railroad
The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,912-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that 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. -
Car
German inventor Karl Benz patented his Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Cars became widely available in the early 20th century. An American car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company. -
Airplane
An airplane is a powered flying vehicle with fixed wings and a weight greater than that of the air it displaces. Airplanes had a presence in all the major battles of World War II. -
The Wright Brothers Flyer
Was the first successful heavier-than-air powered aircraft. It was designed and built by the Wright brothers. They flew it four times on December 17, 1903, near Kill Devil Hills, about four miles (6.4 km) south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. -
Television
The world's first electronic television was created by a 21 year old inventor named Philo Taylor Farnsworth. That inventor lived in a house without electricity until he was age 14. -
Helicopter
On September 14, 1939, the VS-300, the world's first practical helicopter, took flight at Stratford, Connecticut. Designed by Igor Sikorsky and built by the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Division of the United Aircraft Corporation, the helicopter was the first to incorporate a single main rotor and tail rotor design.Which made a faster route to places. -
The opening of the Pennsylvania Turnpike
It was just 160 miles long stretching from Carlisle to Irwin. It included two-lane tunnels at Laurel Hill, Allegheny, Ray's Hill, Sideling Hill, Tuscarora, Kittatinny and Blue Mountain. -
The World Wide Web (the internet)
Is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators, which may be interlinked by hypertext, and are accessible over the Internet. -
Amazon
Amazon.com, Inc., 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 -
Social Media
Social Media are apps or websites that share information, ideas and other forms of virtual communities and networks. It enabled users to upload a profile and make friends with other users. It played a significant role facilitating communication and interaction among participants of political protests. Protesters used social media to organize demonstrations and raise local and global awareness of ongoing events. -
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. -
iphone
On June 29, 2007, the first iPhone was released. On June 11, 2007, Apple announced at the Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference that the iPhone would support third-party applications using the Safari engine. Third parties would be able to create Web 2.0 applications, which users could access via the Internet. The iphone took away from the computer industry.
