Invention+Chart


 * Transcontinental Railroad
 * Standard Gauge
 * 1st internal combustion engine powered by gasoline
 * The 1st piloted flight in a powered plane - how long was it?
 * Telegraph
 * Telephone
 * Typewriter
 * Phonograph
 * Lightbulb
 * DC Electricity
 * AC Electricity
 * Bessemer Process
 * Steam Engine to drill for oil

-Opened on May 10, 1869 and it was the crowning achievements of the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. -It connected the west with the east and served a vital link for trade. -The full trip only took 7 days and costed $65, which was safer and faster than traveling along the California or the Oregon Trail. -Thought up by George Stephenson, it is basically the standard distance between the inner sides of the rails. It is 4 feet 1/8 inches, or 1422 mm. Used by 60% of the railroads in the world
 * Transcontinental Railroad
 * Standard Gauge

- invented by Thomas Edison in 1870 - provided ELECTRICITY! YAY! ;)
 * Light bulb

- invented by Edison and his fellow researchers in 1882 - It could deliver electricity to the homes and offices in a very small area surrounding the plant
 * DC (direct current) electricity

- invented by George Westinghouse and Nikola Telsa - It could transmit electricity over long distances and allowed continued expansion of the use of electricity in urban households and industry
 * AC (alternating current) electricity

- invented by Henry Bessemer - It is a method of steel-making that burned off the impurities in iron with a blast of hot air. - It could produce more steel in one day than the older techniques could turn out in one week.
 * Bessemer Process

Sameul F.B. Morse invented the telegraph to communicate over wires with electricity in 1837. Telegraphy acted as the long-distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters. The telegraph was used in businesses to send business orders to distant location within minutes. Telegraphs were in offices in train stations to send information for businesses, the government, newspapers, and private citizens.
 * Telegraph

Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in March 1876. The telephone was nicknamed the 'talking telegraph' because it had a bigger impact. Telephone allowed people to transmit and receive sound from different locations. There were more than a million telephones installed in office and homes in the 1800s and people were able to communicate faster and easier.
 * Telephone

⁃ invented in 1876 by Nikolaus A. Otto ⁃ ambiguous designers in Europe and the U.S. attempted to use this gasoline engine to power horseless carriages ⁃ after this, in 1893, Charles and J. Frank Duryea built the first practical motorcar in the U.S. ⁃ also this led to advances in flight
 * 1st internal combustion engine powered by gasoline

⁃ The Wright brothers experimented with glider designs/ European designs ⁃ happened on December 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina ⁃ Orville Wright made the first piloted flight- 12 seconds and went up 120 ft- in a powered plane ⁃ was not that famous but later engineers dramatically demonstrated the importance of airplanes
 * The 1st piloted flight in a powered plane - how long was it?