Technology During The Industrial Revolution

Technology has come along way since the industrial revolution. Starting out with things such as the cotton gin and going to things such as the radio then the television and then phones. This progression has helped a lot in the medical field and has saved countless lives. Starting in the civil war they began to amputating limbs when someone got shot. Technology can save lives, entertain people, improve the quality of life and it can help with Military improvements. Technology has come a long way this essay will go over good technology from the Industrial Revolution and how far it has come since
The Industrial Revolution changed plenty of things in the United States of America. It helped make things easier and allowed work to be finished faster.
This was important because it could help spread news and help people with communication. “The telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. In addition to helping invent the telegraph, Samuel Morse developed a code (bearing his name) that assigned a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the English alphabet and allowed for the simple transmission of complex messages across telegraph lines….Although the telegraph had fallen out of widespread use by the start of the 21st century, replaced by the telephone, fax machine and Internet, it laid the groundwork for the communications revolution that led to those later innovations.” Another invention important to communication and entertainment was the Phonograph which could record and playback sounds. This was more important to entertainment as people were able to hear artists that they could not hear in person. The Telephone was invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell, and it was a huge invention as it was upgraded and is still being upgraded and used today. Alexander Graham Bell thought people would say Aloha when answering the