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Communication Alexander Graham Bell invented The telephone-People could speak across great distances. In the beginning mainly used in businesses. Eventually people would have telephones in their homes.
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Age of Invention
Chapter 19 Section 2
Communication• Samuel Morse inventedThe Telegraph-People could send
messages instantly.• Cyrus Field- telegraph wire from U.S. to Europe.
People could communicate across the Atlantic Ocean.
Communication• Alexander Graham Bell invented• The telephone-People could speak
across great distances. • In the beginning mainly used in
businesses.• Eventually people would have
telephones in their homes.
Communication Inventions
TelegraphBell’s Telephone Edison’s Motion Picture
Camera
George Eastman, Kodak Camera
Transportation• Henry Ford inventedThe automobile• The automobile allowed people to
travel great distances and changed where and how people lived.
• Ford introduced the assembly line, it led other businesses to follow and made manufacturing easier. It also led to lower prices for consumers.
Mail Order Catalogs• Sears Roebuck• People in rural areas were able to
purchase items, from sinks to shoes, through the mail.
• This made shopping easy for people who did not have access to big stores.
Sears and Roebuck
Sears Catalog 1905
You could order a car from the Sears catalog,
or stylish clothes,
even a bonnet.
Sears CatalogHow about a small house.
Even a stove to place in your small house.
The Sears Catalog had it all !!!!!!!!!!
Thomas Edison• Edison invented• The phonograph, the motion
picture camera, electric voting machine, stock ticker, electric pen and over 1300 patented devices.
• His most important invention was the light bulb.
Thomas Edison’s InventionsVote Recorder
Phonograph
Light Bulb
Later phonograph
Edison’s inventions
Stock Ticker
Storage Battery
Motion Picture Camera
Electric Pen
