Communication In The Gilded Age

Communication is a way of expressing one's thoughts or ideas to other humans. Back in time, humans did not have news, media, phones and the internet to keep them connected to family and friends. Unsurprisingly, people out there today take this technology for granted because they rely on these inventions to stay in touch. Everyone in the world wants to know about what has happened as soon that information is available to the general public. The Gilded Age and the Roaring Twenties did not have these simple and effective technologies. The Gilded Age, brought out new technologies that were at first only used by skilled engineers because the technologies were complex. While this technology was impressive for its time, The Roaring Twenties in the 1900s brought out enhancements to these inventions for the general public to use, while also using communication to win the first great world war. Communication in the late 1800s to the early 1900s has helped humans become closer to one another in the world.
The late 1800s, brought new communication technology to drastically stay informed of the world. The telegraph for example brought rapid relay of messages to one place to another. …show more content…
The Gilded Age brought out new technologies, such as the telephone and the telegraph. These technologies not only made it possible to communicate with others long distance, but it also set a new ground in the way in which people are living in today. The Roaring Twenties however, brought out new enhancements to the same inventions that the inventors made in the Gilded Age. The telegraph now was more powerful; it had a major business profit out of cable lines and made the connections much stronger than other predecessors. It also even made Americans feel more connected to each other than they ever were. Newspapers, Magazines, and Television brought what America is all about right onto families’