Invention of the telephone

The ability to communicate has significantly changed in the past century. From the invention of the telegram in 1837 to the development of the modern-day telephone in the 2000s, the means of communication have allowed humans to reduce delivery time and stay up to date at the rate in which events occur. Sherry Turkle, a psychology professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, argues that the once brilliant and practical development of technology negatively affects human intimacy in her book…

work and not be distracted by outside noises and people. He was able to focus on his own thoughts and not hear the others who didn't believe in what he was capable of doing. This immense amount of focus allowed him to invent magnificent tools and inventions that the modern world uses today. Society looks up to people like Edison, who invented the bases of what the world now…

easier to ship products all around the country. Consumers were no longer restricted to products created in region they lived in. The Sears catalog took advantage of all the railways and postal service to bring urban annuities to rural areas. The invention of the refrigerated boxcar allowed products to be shipped around the country, without spoiling. Aviation became the next major transportation, there was no long car or train rides to the other side of the country or long boat rides to…

The internet evolved over time and did not have a particular inventor. It started in the late 1950’s as a way for government researchers to share information and “a weapon in the Cold War.” (Invention) On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union orbited the world’s first satellite called Sputnik. The Sputnik allowed scientists to get important information even though it did not have any scientific instruments. The satellite was just rotating around in space sending beeping and other signals. This…

Additionally, the evolution of electricity during the Second Industrial Revolution enabled advancements in transportation and communication that would assist in connecting people throughout the world. Before this era, larges cities were overcrowded with horse-drawn traffic because “the cheapest car cost twice a worker’s annual pay.” However, through the advances in electric motors and the mass production of vehicles, transportation became affordable to the middle class. People began to relocate…

the first African American to be a mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War. Over the course of his lifetime Granville Woods has obtained more than 50 patents for inventions, including: an automatic brake and an egg incubator and improvements to other inventions such as safety circuits, telegraph, telephone, and phonograph Granville T. Woods was born April 23, 1856 to a mixed-race family in Columbus, Ohio. His mother, Martha J. Brown, and his father, Tailer Woods, had another son…

Other military invention and inventor that continuo working with guns like Eli Whitney with the muskets, it was Samuel Colt, he starts the experiments with firearms in 1830’s, and he finish creating the colt revolver, this arm could consider one of the most changed inventions for the industrial revolution. This gun impacts the social era of 1830’s because it was the first commercial available firearm and actually everyone were buying it. Colt most thought it was use his inventions in the…

implemented to help create learning experiences for early childhood students (Walker, 2015 pp. 35-37). An artefact needs to engage students, allowing them to investigate and explore while assisting them to connect with the world around them. The ‘Rotary Telephone’ is a wonderful early childhood artefact as it is hands on and allows students to…

Invention of the Telegraph The telegraph is one of the inventions that started long distance communication. To begin with, Samuel Morse came up with the marvelous idea of this invention. However, he did have a competitor by the name of Charles Wheatstone. The original telegraph was developed in the 1830s. It was tested and updated through a number of years from when it was invented. It’s actually quite impressive how this whole system was developed. According to ‘Morse Code and the Telegraph’…

Driving is tough without distractions and requires your constant attention, but since the invention of the smartphone, our society is in constant need to be doing more than one thing at a time. We are all guilty of looking at our phone while driving whether to get direction to where we are heading or to simply change the song, but it’s surprising…