Transportation Technologies & Future Applications Fall 2006.
New Technologies and Transportation
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Transportation Revolution
Rapid improvement of speed and cost
Changed the way people traveled and shipped goods
Made possible by the steam engine
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Robert Fulton
Created the 1st successful Steamboat
Called the “Clermont”
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Peter Cooper
Built one of the first locomotives
Called “Tom Thumb”
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Gibbons vs. Ogden
Gibbons wanted to run his boats between NY and NJ, Ogden sued because he had the rights to NY
It reached the Supreme Court where Gibbons won
Marshall’s ruling reinforced federal government authority over states
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Communication by wire
Samuel Morse develops the telegraph
Sends signal through wire using Morse code
Trans continental line finished in 1861
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Agricultural Improvements
Made farming possible in mid-west
Made farming faster
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John Deere invents the steel plow which can slice through plains dirt
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Cyrus McCormick
develops mechanical reaper
allows farmers to buy on credit
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The Sewing Machine
Invented by Elias Howe
Isaac Singer - improved sewing machine which is simple to run
Women began earning money sewing at home