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    “Why don’t you write, your rascals?” was the first phrase sent over the telegraph towards the end of the Industrial Revolution(Allen). During the Industrial Revolution speed and efficiency became a high priority. Factories and the mass production of goods was booming thus making people move to the cities from the rural areas. This rural-to-urban migration fostered a cultural shift. With the invention of the telegraph, by Baron Schilling in 1832, mass communication spurred, a faster, easier more

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    The Steam Engine In spite of the fact that steam as a method for force had been initially explored different avenues regarding by the antiquated Greeks and Romans a large number of years prior, and the first trial steam motors had been fabricated as right on time as the late seventeenth century, it wasn't until the turn of the nineteenth century that it turned into the really commonsense vitality source which was to light the modern insurgency. Indeed, it is difficult to envision the nineteenth

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    John Stevens designed and improved steam boiler (pg. 236). John Stevens also received one of the first patents issued by the United States (pg. 236). Robert R. Livingston used his political influence to obtain an exclusive charter to operate steamboats on New York waters (pg. 236). John Fitch failed to justify the economic benefits of steam navigation. Robert Fulton built his first steamboat after John Fitch death. Robert Fulton became known as the father of steam navigation (pg. 236). In 1807, Robert

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    Joseph Winters, born in 1816, made the fire escape ladder in 1878. Then 100 years later, died of heart disease and is buried in Chambersburg, Pa . On May 7, 1878, the fire escape ladder was patented by Joseph Winters. Joseph Winters invented a fire escape ladder mounted onto a horse drawn wagon. Winters noticed that firemen had to take ladders off of their wagons to climb to windows, rescue people, and spray water on fires. The purpose of his invention was to make it easier to save someone in danger

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    learned how to make machines move by burning fuels. The first of these machines was the steam engine that burned coal to heat water that made steam that pushed a piston that turned a wheel. Goods that had always been made by hand in homes and shops were replaced by goods made in large quantities at lower cost by machines in factories. Humans had never gone faster than horses could carry them, but now steam-powered trains and ships moved people and goods faster and cheaper than ever before. This

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    Where would the world be without energy? Well, the answer is nowhere, the earth wouldn’t exist because there would be no nuclear fission of hydrogen occurring on the sun and the earth the earth would freeze over and fall into darkness. Where would we be if there was no energy? We wouldn’t exist, energy is vital to us it provides us with heat and gives us food to eat, and oxygen to breathe. To be more specific no life would exist without energy, energy is a vital resource to the survival of mankind

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    between 1820 and 1840 and transformed the country’s economy, from one based on agriculture to one based on manufacturing. The Industrial Revolution went from hand building methods to machines, improved efficiency of water power, increased the use of steam power and the development of machine tools as well as changing from wood and other bio-fuels to coal. One of the most important results of the Industrial Revolution of the Nineteenth Century was the factory system, which is a method of manufacturing

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    other than doing everything by hand. The start of this was due to the man Thomas Newcomen who was the first man to invent the steam engine in 1712 which was first used to collect water from the flooding mines, but eventually would be used in future automobiles, trains, steamboats, and factories. These upgrades wouldn't come until 1769 when James Watt would improve the steam engine and make it more efficient in use. Another big upgrade to production was the invention of the spinning Jenny was invented

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    The Steam Engine

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    Richard Trevithick (1771-1833), built the first steam-powered locomotive that hauled seventy individuals and ten tons of ore at five miles per hour. Improving on Trevithick's machine, George Stevenson built a better locomotive, known as the "rocket", that could move six cars of coal and twenty-one passenger coaches at faster speed in 1830. In addition, steam-powered ships would gradually replace sail ships. To elaborate further on the steam engine effects, the epitome of its social impact can

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    steel engine played vital role in the revolution, Trade expansion was enabled by the beginning of canals, enhanced

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