WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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They developed a major corporation around the telephone.
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They created an electrical system to make light bulbs practical.
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. They improved the assembly line and systems of mass production.
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They started the aircraft industry with their experiments in manned flight.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The main contribution was that they were the first to ever have a successful man controled flight. This paved the way for future air and space technology. The Wrights were able to overcome several obstacles over their lives and eventually they defied all odds and the law of gravity.
Detailed explanation-2: -At age 32, Orville piloted the first successful powered, controlled flight on December 17, 1903. The Wright brothers had changed the world. After 1903, their attention was devoted solely to aviation. By 1908, they formed airplane companies in Europe and America and, by 1910, they had taught the world how to fly.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Wright brother’s breakthrough was their invention of the three-axis control, which enabled the pilot to steer the aircraft with full control and enhanced the ablility to easily maintain its equilibrium. This method became standard for all fixed-wing aircrafts.
Detailed explanation-4: -The art of flight You may have heard of the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, who revolutionized transportation by inventing the world’s first successful airplane-the “Wright Flyer I”-that took flight in 1903. With that, the Wright brothers became the pioneers of aviation.