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The Pencil
The Pencil was first created by Conrad Gessner in 1564. It had many more pros than the feather dipped in ink. -
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 Bicycle
The first verifiable claim for a practically used bicycle belongs to German Baron Karl von Drais. Drais invented his Laufmaschine (German for "running machine") in 1817. It was a much faster way to travel than walking. -
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. -
The Telegraph and Morse code
Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. In 1844, Samuel Morse sent his first telegraph message. It became much faster to send a message than to send a letter. -
The Transcontinental railroad
Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,912-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. to the existing western U.S. They used to have to travel by horse and buggy or walk which took months or even years. When the railroad was built it increased travel to only about a week or two. -
The Diesel Engine
The diesel engine was invented in 1883, by Rudolf Diesel. This engine made vehicles have a lot more power, they move a lot slower though. -
The Wright brothers flyer
It 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. -
The Automobile
The automobile was first invented in Germany and France in the late 1800s, though Americans quickly came to dominate the automotive industry in the first half of the twentieth century. Henry Ford innovated mass-production techniques that became standard, and Ford, General Motors and Chrysler emerged as the “Big Three” auto companies by the 1920s. -
Television
The world’s first electronic television was created in 1927 by a 21 year old inventor named Philo Taylor Farnsworth. -
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. It increased the speed of travel. It is the fastest route in the U.S. -
The World Wide Web (the Internet)
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network adopted transmission control protocol/Internet protocol 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 is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington that was created on July 5, 1994, Bellevue, WA by Jeff Bozos. -
The Promethean Board
A Promethean Board is a specific brand of interactive whiteboard, invented by Tony Cann, that allows you to project an image from a laptop or a computer, as well as interact with the board through touch or specialized pens. It is much better and faster than just using an over head projector or a smart board. One ways it's faster is because you can use your fist to erase while still holding the pen. -
Myspace
Founded in 2003 by Timothy Vanderhook, Myspace is an American social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. It was the largest social networking site in the world from 2005 to 2008. -
the iPhone
When Apple announced the iPhone on January 9, 2007, it was sold only with AT&T contracts in the United States. It was created by Steve Jobs. It was mainly used for better com
