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Stephenson's locomotive led to better designs, and locomotives connected communities that once seemed FAR apart.
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This machine used a code of dots and dashes to send messages over wires. News could reach communities more quickly.
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The Pony Express made mail delivery faster.
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Bell improved the telegraph. For the first time, people could speak to and hear others who were far away.
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Before the lightbulb, people used candles, oil lamps and gas lamps for light. The lightbulb let peoplelight their homes without the danger of causing a fire. Because of the lightbulbs, families and communities could do more evening activities.
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In communities that were growing, people needed more lpaces to live and work. It led to the invention of the elevator.
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The Wright Brothers made a 12 second flight in an airplane. Today, airplanes carry both people and goods around the world.
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Model T FootageAt first, cars cost a lot of money. Ford mad a car that more people could buy. It quickly became the main form of transportation.
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The Panama Canal was built to shorten a trip around the Americas.
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Long bridges like the Golden Gate Bridge represents how humans have changed the environment to link different communities.
