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Technology Advances in the 20 th Century. Railroads allowed people to travel faster Promoted Commuting to Work Less Travel Time = More Vacation Time. Trains. Train Depot at American Fork 1912. Lagoon – resort for swimming, dancing and horseracing.
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Railroads allowed people to travel faster • Promoted Commuting to Work • Less Travel Time = More Vacation Time Trains Train Depot at American Fork 1912
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1900 – 20 automobiles • 1909- 873 automobiles • At first no paved roads and few gas stations • Shared road with horses • Few mechanics and no tow trucks Automobiles
Monday 12th - Last Day to Turn in Missing/Redo Assignments. Divide ourselves into North and South. Complete Path to Secession definitions and game (Must get Hard Copy from Mrs. P) Tuesday 13th - South Secedes Reading Guide and start to write Speech "Was Secession Ok?" Southern States Secede Reading Guide(READING GUIDE and SPEECH DUE 3/14). Wednesday 14th - Finish Speeches. 10 people will randomly be selected to deliver speech Thursday 15th - Grade Warm Ups! Start Key Details of War, I and II (We will work on this throughout Civil War unit. This packet will be DUE 3/26) Friday 16th- End of Quarter 3! No School Paving 1300 East in SLC
The Wright Brothers First Flight – 1903 in North Carolina • Utah’s first flight – 1910 • At first = entertainment • Much later = transportation Airplanes
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First use of electric lights – Cleveland, OH 1878 • Electric lights in SLC – 1880 • First generated by steam! • Then generated by water • By 1920’s most urban places had electricity Electricity
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Alexander Graham Bell – inventor • 1880- Local UT calls • Wendover 1914- Transcontinental calls! • wires were joined to complete telephone circuit from NYC to San Francisco Telephones
Not one inventor – many scientists contributed to radio “idea” • Originally called “wireless telegraphy” • 1922- First radio broadcast in Utah on KZN KSL Radio