Growing up with today’s modern technology one can really take for granted where it all began. Once a person has researched these inventions it gives one greater appreciation of todays’ technology because the inventors’ idea and work to create things such as telephones, photographs, moving pictures, locomotives, large buildings with steel, and electrical equipment has made life easier for businesses and everyday living today. According To Historian John Buescher (2010) “There were two technological innovations that profoundly changed daily life in the 19th century. They were both “motive powers”: steam and electricity. The development and application of steam engines and electricity to various tasks such as transportation and the telegraph, affected human life by increasing and multiplying the mechanical power of human, animal strength, the power of simple tools.”
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Many felt it threatened their families’ honor and independence because people were drawn from home to work in factories within dark urban areas creating a safety concern. To many it was taking away self-pride of the work of their own hands. Some may have felt like machines just preforming a limited set of functions on a daily basis compared to life before factory work. However, on the other hand, it made it possible for goods to become available now to both wealthy as well as the lower class and even in areas that it was impossible for delivery before.
Before the telegraph was invented to get a message from point A to B one had to physically take it by walking, riding horseback or boat for delivery which could take days if not weeks depending on how far they had to travel. The telegraph which was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse changed everything and made it easier and faster to receive long-distance communication. The telephone soon followed allowing voice to travel over a long distance through
Steam was a …show more content…
Many felt it threatened their families’ honor and independence because people were drawn from home to work in factories within dark urban areas creating a safety concern. To many it was taking away self-pride of the work of their own hands. Some may have felt like machines just preforming a limited set of functions on a daily basis compared to life before factory work. However, on the other hand, it made it possible for goods to become available now to both wealthy as well as the lower class and even in areas that it was impossible for delivery before.
Before the telegraph was invented to get a message from point A to B one had to physically take it by walking, riding horseback or boat for delivery which could take days if not weeks depending on how far they had to travel. The telegraph which was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse changed everything and made it easier and faster to receive long-distance communication. The telephone soon followed allowing voice to travel over a long distance through