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The speed of communication accelerated in the 19th century
Construction of turnpikes, canals, railroads, post offices, steamships and the telegraph generated a communications revolution.
Mail began to deliver by express.
Joseph Henry - his research in electromagnetism provided the basis of Samuel Morse's invention of the telegraph and for the invention of electric motors.
Joseph Henry became the head of the Smithsonian Institution.
Technological advances helped improved living conditions: houses could be larger, better heated and better lite.
There was indoor plumbing, central heating, gas lights, bathtubs, and iceboxes, cooking stoves.
The first sewer systems helped cities begin to rid their streets of human and animal waste. Underground water lines enabled firemen to use hydrants rather than water buckets.
There were machine made clothes.
There were lots of newspapers and magazines and they were affordable.
There were also watches and clocks
Some Inventors:
1. Charles Goodyear - patented a process to "vulcanize" rubber, making rubber stronger and more elastic
2. Elias Howe - designed the sewing machine
3. Isaac Singer - improved the sewing machine that Elias Howe invented
[The sewing machine actually slowed the progress of factory because it was adapted to use in the home, and it enabled women to work form home.
4. Samuel Morse - telegraph. The first telegraph was transmitted from Baltimore to Washington, DC
By the end of 1840 telegraph lines connected all major cities
The communication and transportation improvements of the first half of the 19th century reshaped the contours economic, social and political life. Steamboats, canals, and railroads helped unite the western areas of the country with the East, boost trade, open up the West for settlement, and spark growth of cities such as Buffalo, Cleveland, and Chicago.
Between 1800 and 1860 a nation of scattered farms and primitive roads was transformed into an engine of captitalist expansion and urban energy.
The first national brands, first department stores and first advertising agencies.
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