Ten Most: Evolution of Transportation/Communication

Vanessa MaykelAP US History

5/5/08

1690 First US newspaper: ￒPublick Occurrencesￓ published in Boston 1789 Oliver Evans makes first automobile patent in the US 1794 Claude Chappe invents the telegraph 1825 Erie Canal completed 1869 Transcontinental Railroad 1870 Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell 1879 First radio developed 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright have first successful flight 1941 Standardized broadcast of television across US 1944 National system of interstate highways under Federal Highway Act