GK
INVENTIONS
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Question
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Which one of the inventions from your chart changed the way goods and people were transported?
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Telephone
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Light Bulb
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Steam Engine
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Cotton Gin
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The steam engine gave people another way to travel besides boat, horse drawn wagon or land. Steam engines did not only help failing cities like Baltimore from going bankrupt because of the huge competition with the Erie Canal but gave this cities income from letting people travel through their cities.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first commercially successful engine that could transmit continuous power to a machine was developed in 1712 by Thomas Newcomen.
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