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The Printing Press
The printing press was a way for papers to be made with ink on them for reading purposes and since all of those papers were being made, information could be shared quickly and efficiently. -
The Lehigh Canal
The Lehigh Canal is a navigable canal, beginning at the mouth of Nesquehoning Creek on the Lehigh River in Eastern Pennsylvania. It was used as a public highway for people to get places faster. -
The Maiden Voyage of the Steamboat Clermont.
On its first voyage, August 17, 1807, the Clermont averaged close to 5 mph for the 150 miles up the Hudson River to Albany, New York. This gave people an option for faster transportation and no traffic! -
The Telegraph and Morse code
In the 1830s and 1840s, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication and it worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations or Morse code. -
The Transcontinental Railroad
Transcontinental Railroad was a continuous railroad line 1,912-miles long that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network to the western rail network. It made transportation ten times safer and faster than it was before. -
The Telephone
A telephone is a device that lets two or more users have a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly. Imagine this! You could talk to someone in a whole different state without any hassle. Now you can keep up with distant family! -
The Automobile
A car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transportation. This invention altered the world because now transportation was a lot faster than a boat. -
The Wright brothers flyer
The Wright Flyer was their first successful powered aircraft. It was designed and built by the Wright brothers and they flew it four times on December 17, 1903. This creation made it so much easier to get places. With the plane, you don't have to suffer the traffic on the roads. -
The Television
The Television is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images. These moving images were usually used for advertising, news, and entertainment. -
The Computer
A computer is a machine that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming. With the computer people couls email and text eacother through it. People could share their lives, pictures, and videos which brought connectivity. -
Pennsylvania Turnpike
The Pennsylvania Turnpike is a toll highway that runs for 360 miles across the state. This turnpike helps to get from one town to another in Pennsylvania and it was the first ever four-lane highway. Think about how much faster you could get places with so much space on the road! -
Global Positioning System (GPS)
The Global Positioning System or (GPS) is a network of about 30 satellites orbiting the Earth. There are signals being sent back and forth, traveling at the speed of light, that are intercepted by your GPS receiver, which calculates how far away each satellite is based on how long it took for the messages to arrive. Pretty cool right! -
The World Wide Web
The World Wide Web or WWW. for short is an information system where web resources which are identified by URLs, are accessible over the Internet. The WWW really helped with sharing information, to create a world of creativity and collaboration. -
Amazon.com
Amazon.com is an American multinational technology company that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Amazon is one of the biggest companies in the world along with Google, Facebook, and Apple. -
The iPhone
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 phone had everything so people could do anything they need to on a computer, on their iPhone. -
Myspace
Myspace was a social networking website for interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. Myspace connected people together and brought friendliness in the world,
