History Of Technology In America

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Renea Layne HIS 204 American History Since 1865 Technologies & American History Instructor Jason Weinerman December 12, 2011 We begin our journey back in 1866 when America was looking for a better way to be able to connect to the nation outside the world (Bowles, 2011). From 1866 to the present, there have been enormous ways that the technological world has advanced and brought America out of the physical and intellectual ways of isolation. In 1866, a transatlantic cable connected the United States with Europe, which brought almost instant telegraphic messages to each other. These messages were used for businesses and personal reasoning as well as other ways of communicating to each other. This was the first step in the world…show more content…
In March of 1876 Alexander Graham Bell spoke into a funnel shaped device to one of his colleagues (Bowles, 2011), which at the time was just into the other room. This was the start of the first telephone communications. The Bell Telephone Company which was sponsored by Bell along with 2 other investors was a great invention, which eventually leads to great communication across seas, into homes, businesses etc. Along with the telephone and telegraph companies, we also had the railroad system. With this new system, it leads to faster ways of transportation of goods, travel, and deliveries. This eliminated the way of the canal transportation. By 1931, Camden and Amboy Railroad lines became an invaluable part of the American physical as well as commercial landscape. Before the railroad, transportation before would have been through way of the canal, as well as pack mules and horse and buggies. They inadvertently replaced the canals making travel time much faster. There were other Technological inventions as well, such as the machinery that farmers have come to use in today’s world. Before these machines, they would do everything by hand. Despite how long it would have taken, and/or the man power it would take. Today they use hay wagons, harvesters, and reapers. This cuts down a great amount of time that it would have normally taken if it had to have been done by…show more content…
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