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The Maiden Voyage of The Steamboat Clermont
On its first voyage, August 17, 1807, the Clermont averaged close to 5 miles per hour for the 150 miles up the Hudson River to Albany, New York. The Clermont inaugurated the first profitable venture in steam navigation, carrying paying passengers between Albany and New York City. This is very significant to the history of transportation, as it allowed for people to get to long distances quickly. -
The 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. It was built in two sections over a span of twenty years, beginning in 1818. its most significant cargoes were anthracite coal and pig iron. Cornerstones of the American Industrial Revolution, they defined the character of the towns surrounding the canal. -
The Telegraph and Morse Code
The telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. Morse code messages can be sent using light or by pulses. In Samuel Morse's time, the most common way to send a pulse message was via a telegraph. When Morse Code was merged to radio, the dots and dashes began being referred to as dits and dahs based on the sound of the radio pulses. -
The Transcontinental Railroad
The First Transcontinental Railroad was built crossing the western half of America and it was pieced together between 1863 and 1869. It was 1,776 miles long and served for the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States to be connected by rail for the first time in history. The railroad's ability to connect both coasts with a relatively quick form of transportation opened markets for goods that did not exist earlier. This helped with long term and more convenient transportation. -
Telephone
A telephone, or phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly. This was revolutionary because this improved long term communication rather than having to use the postal service and waiting a certain time for that to arrive. It was also better than using a telegraph because this did not require training to learn morse code, you could talk to somebody directly. -
Car/Automobile
It is generally acknowledged that the first really practical automobiles with petrol/gasoline-powered internal combustion engines were completed almost simultaneously by several German inventors working independently: Karl Benz built his first automobile in 1885 in Mannheim. This drastically changed the way we work with quicker transportation individually on our own, rather than walking long distances and taking hours to do so. -
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. They flew it four times on December 17, 1903, near Kill Devil Hills. This revolutionized the way we travel to places outside of the united states, and did so quicker than steamships. -
Television
The First Electronic Television was Invented in 1927
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. This gave people a source of entertainment and radio communication. -
The Opening of The Pennsylvania Turnpike
When the Pennsylvania Turnpike opened for business on October 1, 1940, 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. This allowed people to travel outside (and inside) long distances of Pennsylvania -
Computer
The ENIAC, the first computer, was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania and began construction in 1943 and was not completed until 1946. It occupied about 1,800 square feet and used about 18,000 vacuum tubes, weighing almost 50 tons. This was revolutionary because it changed both how we worked with technology and how we could organize the way we work. -
Video Game
In October 1958, Physicist William Higinbotham created what is thought to be the first video game. It was a very simple tennis game, similar to the classic 1970s video game Pong, and it was quite a hit at a Brookhaven National Laboratory open house. This brought upon a source of entertainment, as well as improved technology and coding as the years passed. -
Concorde
The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde is a British-French turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner that was operated from 1976 until 2003. It had a maximum speed over twice the speed of sound at Mach 2.04, with seating for 92 to 128 passengers. This was a machine that traveled to places quicker than the standard airplane would. -
The World Wide Web
ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet. The online world then took on a more recognizable form in 1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. -
Amazon.com
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. This changed the way that we shop online, as there were things on this website that you could not find locally. -
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. -
The iPhone
On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone at the Macworld convention, receiving substantial media attention. Jobs announced that the first iPhone would be released later that year. On June 29, 2007, the first iPhone was released. This was revolutionary as it was one of the most efficient portable/mobile smartphones that had been brought up.
