I know electricity was available but apart from that what other technology was available?
2007-02-20 19:12:05 · 6 answers · asked by SquiBBLe 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
1866 Trans-Atlantic telegraph cables successfully used.
1867 Alfred Nobel (Sweden) invents dynamite.
1868 Christoper Sholes (U.S.) patents typewriter.
1872 Thomas Edison (U.S.) invents duplex telegraph.
1878 Thomas Edison (U.S.) invents incandescent light and phonograph.
1879 William Crooks (English) invents cathode-ray tube.
1884 Ottmar Mergenthaler (German) patents the Lynotype machine.
1888 George Eastman (U.S.) produces the box camera.
It was the age of steam... The first transcontinental railroad in the USA was completed in 1869
Militarily there were ironclad battleships, self-propelled torpedoes, repeating rifles and early machine guns.
2007-02-20 19:44:59 · answer #1 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hear jetcars and crack mobiles where flying from the sky looking for cheetos in the pursuit of chunky salsa in the late 1870s
2007-02-21 03:20:49 · answer #2 · answered by Joe T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water driven power from mill wheels on fast moving streams.
Also steam engines and horse or mule powered wheels that converted rotary power to belt driven power.
Wind driven power.. Not a very easy time for factory workers..
2007-02-21 03:21:40 · answer #3 · answered by Harry T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well they were lucky. Cell phones weren't around, So they didn't have to put up with them. Lets see Trains Steamships telegraph.newspapers there's alot more but I'm drawing a blank.
2007-02-21 03:23:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The electric chair.
2007-02-21 03:18:59 · answer #5 · answered by mark t 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
telephone, sewing machine, generator, street car, skyscrapers
2007-02-24 15:57:31 · answer #6 · answered by arzbarz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋