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Inventions and Social Change

Explore how technological advancements like railroads, telegraph, and telephone transformed society during the Industrial Revolution. Learn how these inventions revolutionized communication, transportation, and work conditions, altering the pace of life permanently.

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Inventions and Social Change

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  1. Inventions and Social Change 10.3.2

  2. Spread of Technology • By the 1840s, England had become a nation connected by railroads. • Around the same time, the United States, Russia, and European nations, such as France and Germany, developed rail systems too. • Major advances in communications had occurred by the 1870s. • International mail • telegraph messages • the telephone

  3. Effects on Society • agriculturally the forces of weather and nature rule. • Work could take place in any weather and more quickly than ever before. • Railroads replaced horses, increasing loads and decreasing shipping and travel times. • The telegraph now took minutes rather than months for a message to reach a faraway destination. • The pace of life had changed forever.

  4. Technological Innovations of the Industrial Revolution

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