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The maiden voyage of the steamboat Clermont
North River Steamboat of Clermont was the first publicized steamboat service in 1807. Designed by an American engineer Robert Fulton and built in New york City by the Charles Brown. On its first voyage, August 17, 1807, the Clermont averaged close to 5 miles (about 8 km) per hour for the 150 miles (240 km) 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. -
Lehigh Canal
Though the canal was used to transport a variety of products, At the 72 mile height it proceeded its purpose that held true significance were to the cargoes with anthracite coal and pig iron. Basis of American Industrial Revolution, they had defined the character of the towns surrounding the canal. -
Telegraph and Morse code
Developed in the 1830's and 1840's inventors including Samuel Morse( where the name came from) the telegraph revolutionized long distance communication worked on by the transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. Morse developed a code that was made of an assignment of dots and dashes to each letter of the English language, simplifying complex messages into ones of a simpler elect. -
Transcontinental Railroad
Due to its building, the Transcontinental Railroad opened the rapid development of the American west. After the completion of the track the very travel time of what making a 3000 mile journey across the United States would mean (many months) to being into a way of under a week transforming the United States connecting the two American Coasts that made economic export of Western resources to Eastern markets easier than its ever was. -
Telecommunications
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The Computer
Though, the invention of the computer was credited to many, the most notable developers of the machine are Charles Baggage and Alan Turing -
Wright brothers flyer
The first heavier-than-air powered aircraft that flied successfully. At 10.53 am, after experimentation for years it took flight at kitty hawk, North Carolina, after which indeed lead into the aviation age. -
Advertisments
Modern advertising originated with the techniques introduced with tobacco advertising in the 1920s, most significantly with the campaigns of Edward Bernays, considered the founder of modern, "Madison Avenue" advertising. https://images.app.goo.gl/VXpyBXr8E2ALivd66 -
Pennsylvania Turnpike opening
https://www.paturnpike.com/yourTurnpike/ptc_history.aspx
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Television
The television introduced a new way for the family to come together in one space and spend time together, even if by filling the room with mind numbing silence -
Internet (World wide web)
Explained simply as a network of networks, conjoining multiple government, university, and privatized computers to one another. Beginning in the early 1960's and has lead humans to today's technology. -
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Myspace
Myspace was one of the very first online chatting and profile networks to exist, and fore after, Facebook. Both applications/ social media platforms blew up in popularity, and connected even the most unlikely of friends. -
