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Bikes&Cariges
. Bicycles, carriages and wagons rolled over thousands of miles of roads. -
Trains
railroads sped along thousands of miles of track -
Ships
ships moved passengers and freight across the oceans and smaller boats plied the nation’s rivers, lakes and canals. -
TypeWritter
The modern typewriter was created by Christopher L. Shole in 1873. -
The Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell invented the “electric speech machine,” or telephone, in 1876. -
The Kinetoscope
On October 17, 1888, Thomas Edison submitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Office his ideas for a motion picture device that would record and produce objects in motion. He called his invention the “Kinetoscope -
The Escalator
Jesse Reno created the first version of the escalator as an entertainment ride at Coney Island, New York in 1891. -
First Cars
In 1900, Americans owned 8 thousand cars, in 1920, 8 million. Cities and suburbs both spread out. For those with cars work and shopping were now just a short drive away. -
Electronic Computers
The earliest attempt to build an electronic computer was by J. V. Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State, in 1937. -
Electronic cellphones
created in morrison,illinois -
First Smartphone
Most smartphones can access the Internet, have a touchscreen user interface, can run third-party apps, music players and are camera phones. Most Smartphones produced from 2012 onwards also have high-speed mobile broadband 4G LTE internet, motion sensors, and mobile payment mechanisms.