Technology and Inventions of the Good Old Days
The 'Good Old Days' had many inventions and a lot had a big impact on society. The main theme of the inventions were the use of electricity and invention of electrical appliances. For example, the light bulb by Thomas Edison, the telephone by Alexander Bell, and the plane by the Wilbur and Oliver Wright. Quick and accurate communication is very important in society and to the economy. Alexander Gram Bell invented the telephone in 1876. The telephone actually expanded out from ideas he made to the telegraph. The telephone came to be a very needed item in the house and truly useful too soon after it was invented. With the telephone out, anyone had the power to talk to anyone around the world, which helped businesses and offices a lot with orders and transactions. Another plus to the telephone was that no one had to know morse code or go to a telegraph office to send or receive a message. The military also benefitted since they could keep in contact with the enemy. It's proven that the War of 1812 might have been prevented if they co
In 1908, Orville and Wilbur Wright perfectly flew the first their plane with the capabilities of actually flying. Before the Wrights, aeronautics was mainly hot air balloons, airships, dirigibles. A German engineer, Otto Lilienthal, was an early aeronautics innovator. The Wrights read about one of Lilienthal's attempts in the paper. From then forward, Orville and Wilbur Wright read about Lilienthal graciously. They aimed to take his space when he died. Lilienthal accomplished gliding with power in his glider. The only flaw was that he couldn't make it turn. Otto Lilienthal died gliding in 1896. The Wrights proved that the information that Lilienthal used to create his gliders was wrong. That was probably why Lilienthal didn't succeed. On December 4, 1877 Edison was the first person to record and play back the human voice on the phonograph. The phonograph was an original invention, but used some of the ideas from the telephone and the telegraph. Edison often sought inventions to meet a demand in the marketplace. His invention to
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