WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Railroad
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Spinning Jenny
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Telegraph
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Steamboat
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Detailed explanation-1: -By transmitting information quickly over long distances, the telegraph facilitated the growth in the railroads, consolidated financial and commodity markets, and reduced information costs within and between firms.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first commercial electrical telegraph was the Cooke and Wheatstone system.
Detailed explanation-3: -Inventor Samuel Morse developed the telegraph system. Morse’s system sent out a signal in a series of dots and dashes, each combination representing one letter of the alphabet (“Morse code”). The inventor submitted a patent for his device, which he called “The American Recording Electro-Magnetic Telegraph” in 1837.
Detailed explanation-4: -It is most associated with sending electrical current pulses along a wire with Morse code encoding. The telegraph is the forerunner of all communication systems today, and many of the principles developed for the telegraph are still in use in modern communication and computer networks.