In the period between 1870 and 1940, an amazing thing happened, new inventions started coming out of nowhere, people started becoming faster and better at everything they did. Trips that would usually take weeks or months turned into hours. Moving thousands of tons of material suddenly became walks in the park. Suddenly there was light in the middle of night, there was medicine, higher buildings, better bridges and roads. Talking to someone across the world was becoming as easy as walking to your closest telephone. The earth seemed to be getting smaller and smaller every day. But in all reality, more and more of it was becoming accessible. All of the joy of the earth did not come without sacrificed of many. “The United States progressed at
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Sometimes called the Technological era, or the American Industrial Revolution, there were great advancements in multiple fields of industry, such as: Iron, Steel, Rail, Electricity, Machine tools, Paper making, Petroleum, Chemical, Maritime Technology, Rubber, Bicycles, Automobile, Applied science, fertilizer, Engines and Turbines, Telecommunications, and Modern Business management . Having such a large number of categories and advancements in not only the United States, but in the entire world, the world seemed to explode into a new, more efficient and smarter age. With so many advancements, life went through a railroad between better and worse living situations. Many important people of this time have three days remembered today, and their ideas are still in today’s inventions and technology as well. People such as: Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Samuel F.B Morse, Alexander Graham Bell, Charles Goodyear, Nikola Tesla, John D Rockefeller and Henry Bessemer, lead this nation and even the world in great industry. And each person’s category was helped in some way by somebody else, without one booming business, the other could not have happened. But all of these different advancements and innovations, there is one clear leader out of all of these, and that would be the manufacturing and use of …show more content…
(American Heroes Channel),. The Telegraph was very new at the time, and it gave Carnegie a special opportunity to be the literal footwork of business. The telegraph, which was invented by a man named Samuel Morse, was the internet of their day. Because of how much Carnegie worker on the telegraph, he began to recognize the Morse code and not have to transcribe it after listening to it. Having this talent got Carnegie Noticed by a man named Thomas Scot, who happened to be the Western Division Super Intendant of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Scot hired the 18 year old Carnegie to be his personnel telegraph operator for a monthly salary of $35. Carnegie was excited to take the job because the Pennsylvania Railroad was one of the, if not the largest company in the world at that time. Carnegie knew he would work his way up the corporate ladder. “In 1853 during a rail emergency when the tracks were blocked, Carnegie signs his bosses name and orders that the cars doing the blocking should be burnt” (American Heroes Channel). Doing this impressed his boss and got Carnegie a raise to $50 a month which is more than comfortable to live on. That would be an
Sometimes called the Technological era, or the American Industrial Revolution, there were great advancements in multiple fields of industry, such as: Iron, Steel, Rail, Electricity, Machine tools, Paper making, Petroleum, Chemical, Maritime Technology, Rubber, Bicycles, Automobile, Applied science, fertilizer, Engines and Turbines, Telecommunications, and Modern Business management . Having such a large number of categories and advancements in not only the United States, but in the entire world, the world seemed to explode into a new, more efficient and smarter age. With so many advancements, life went through a railroad between better and worse living situations. Many important people of this time have three days remembered today, and their ideas are still in today’s inventions and technology as well. People such as: Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Samuel F.B Morse, Alexander Graham Bell, Charles Goodyear, Nikola Tesla, John D Rockefeller and Henry Bessemer, lead this nation and even the world in great industry. And each person’s category was helped in some way by somebody else, without one booming business, the other could not have happened. But all of these different advancements and innovations, there is one clear leader out of all of these, and that would be the manufacturing and use of …show more content…
(American Heroes Channel),. The Telegraph was very new at the time, and it gave Carnegie a special opportunity to be the literal footwork of business. The telegraph, which was invented by a man named Samuel Morse, was the internet of their day. Because of how much Carnegie worker on the telegraph, he began to recognize the Morse code and not have to transcribe it after listening to it. Having this talent got Carnegie Noticed by a man named Thomas Scot, who happened to be the Western Division Super Intendant of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Scot hired the 18 year old Carnegie to be his personnel telegraph operator for a monthly salary of $35. Carnegie was excited to take the job because the Pennsylvania Railroad was one of the, if not the largest company in the world at that time. Carnegie knew he would work his way up the corporate ladder. “In 1853 during a rail emergency when the tracks were blocked, Carnegie signs his bosses name and orders that the cars doing the blocking should be burnt” (American Heroes Channel). Doing this impressed his boss and got Carnegie a raise to $50 a month which is more than comfortable to live on. That would be an