Progression Of Technology Essay

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How the progression of technology comes in many different forms. Technology progression is the start of something or the beginning of an idea and slowly begins to develop over time with many failures as well as successes. As time goes by, the progression develops and grows. Where it will end, is indefinite in that answer. Only time will tell and one’s ability to see that outcome. The entrepreneurs and inventors of technology are very plentiful. Such as, Alexander Graham Bell, who made the first telephone; Henry Ford, the automobile; The Wright brothers, the airplane, just to name a few.
These entrepreneurs started out with a dream or maybe an idea. They came to make all of these inventions because they and friends to believe in them. Many companies saw what the inventors were doing and they wanted to help so they invested money into them to help their idea become possible, make it reality. Since, these inventors were being able to produce their invention they were able to bring it out and show
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This can be next door, across the street, the next city, even across the nation, or on the other side of the world. As if they were standing in the same room. Always readily accessible were it used to be attached to the wall were you had to ring for and operator for them to connect you and even neighbors listing in on the party line. Consequently, the phone has become part of everyday life, it has just become an extension of our hand. This was made possible by the insights of Alexander Graham Bell in his tenacity to not listen to the critics and even friends that said it was impossible. To those naysayers, for the doubt of the impossible became the possible. That this technology was the mere idea that has become part of main stay life. If Alexander Graham Bell had listened to those naysayers what would life have been like

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