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the telegraph
samuel morse took out a patent on telegraphy morse didnt make the telegraph but he perfected it he devised a a code of short and long electrical impulses which is called the morse code he sent his first message in 1844 it was a sucess -
Drake strikes oil
Drake strikes oil from Titusville, Pennsylvania and set up an oil well and began drilling after a year of raising money and building the equipment. -
the telephone
Alexander graham bell him and a group of partners set up the american telephone and telegraph company to build long distance telephone lines -
the brooklyn bridge
John A Roebling thought it would be a good idea to build it he died shortly after construction of the brooklyn bridge -
Edison a master of invention
in 1879 Edison and his fellow inventors tried to produce light in 1880 they found a workable filament made of bamboo fiber in 1882 edison built a power plant that lit dozens of buildings
