Three areas of invention Inventions are of three kinds:
National roads were built to make transportation easier, but railroads and steamboats made the movement of raw materials and manufactured goods even faster.
Byjust twenty years after the engine Tom Thumb lost its race against a railroad car pulled by a horse, about nine thousand miles of railroad track crossed the nation.
One of the early railroad lines was the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western.
In the s, the president of this new company commissioned the artist George Inness to paint The Lackawanna Valley to use for advertising purposes.
While documenting the achievements of the railroad, Inness also created a convincing view of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Steam-powered trains were fueled by wood or coal this one uses wood. They released smoke and soot in the air that often made rail travel dirty.
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It was not uncommon for porters to brush passengers off at the end of the line. Ina passenger wrote this firsthand account of an early trip by rail: The [coaches] were coupled together with chains, leaving from two to three feet slack.
Each of the tossed passengers who had an umbrella raised it as a protection against the smoke and fire. They were found to be little protection, for I think in the first mile the last umbrella went over-board, all having their covers burnt off from the flames.
Ludlum, History of The United States, vol. Beginnings to Boston: Dickinson was born and lived in Amherst, Massachusetts. In her late twenties, she became increasingly withdrawn and thereafter seldom ventured outside her home.
Valleys, mountains, roads, quarries, hills. Trees had to be cut down to accommodate the railroad just as today trees must be cleared to make way for new highways. But cutting down trees can be harmful to the environment. How would you handle this issue? What new information has this painting and poem taught you about the nineteenth century?
Activity There were many scientific, medical, and technological advances that improved the quality of life in nineteenth-century America. These patented inventions include:Top 10 Inventions That Changed the World.
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Learn about great inventors like Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, the Wright brothers, Alexander Graham Bell and Nicola Tesla, and inventions like the cotton gin, the automobile and the Internet. A promotional painting by George Inness will introduce students to a new invention from the nineteenth century: the locomotive.
Then, they will research another invention from the nineteenth-century and the impact it had on the lives of . Impact Inventing: Strengthening the Ecosystem for Invention-Based Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets September 25, • Alexander N.
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