End of Isolation
Technology and the End of Isolation Technology was one of many spectacular ways that helped Americans break free from what seemed to be a never ending time of isolation. There were so many hardships in the early years starting in 1865 that one living in those days may have not have been able to see an end in sight. Inventions as well as improvements in technology were about to be the answer to many of the physical and intellectual isolation problems of Americans. There were new methods to help perform duties and assist in tasks of labor, there were technologies to end personal isolation and get people from place to place and there was also a way to end intellectual isolation by getting information to people groups at a time through radio signals. All of these things could be done through technology and were all ways of ending isolation. Physical labor and work duties are all something expected of the average person when wanting to get a salary at the end of the week. This is just the way the cycle goes when one has a family to feed. So it went in the cycle of isolation in the years prior to 1900, the people back in those days really knew the true meaning of “physical” labor. The years dating back to before 1900 lacked most of the conveniences that have now been invented in 2012 and are now in use for most tasks that we do in our work force such as a few of the inventions mentioned below.
The first actual computer based invention that came about to assist in actual labor in order to perform the duties of several people and cut the time down considerably making a substantial benefit to all involved would have been the Hollerith Electric Tabulating System. “The first large-scale application of the HETS was the 1890 U.S. census; the second was the Austrian census of 1890. For the third such application--the 1900 US census—agriculture statistics were also processed with punched cards. Over the course of these applications, more than 300 million cards
The first actual computer based invention that came about to assist in actual labor in order to perform the duties of several people and cut the time down considerably making a substantial benefit to all involved would have been the Hollerith Electric Tabulating System. “The first large-scale application of the HETS was the 1890 U.S. census; the second was the Austrian census of 1890. For the third such application--the 1900 US census—agriculture statistics were also processed with punched cards. Over the course of these applications, more than 300 million cards
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