Inventors and Their Early Life
Inventors at their earliest and how they discoverd their experiments.
During 1825 to 1910 would be considered the beginning of a new way of life for many Americans. During 1825 people began inventing new technology and new industries. Those new technologies would soon turn out to be Telephones, Automobiles, Air Brakes, and Cameras etc. With inventors like Thomas Edison, George Pullman, and Andrew Carnige Americans looked at life in a different way. Now people’s lives were much easier because they didn’t have to spend a lot of money or travel far by train if they didn’t need to. By the digital camera being invented families could take pictures of each other instead of going to malls and taking expensive pictures.
One of the first industries that succeeded was a Railroad industry which began after the civil war. Trains were considered unsafe until wooden rails were replaced steel, the front wheels were mounted down so the train could make sharp turns. Eli Janey figured out how to connect and disconnect trains safely that way there will be very few accidents caused by trains. Riding a train was also much safer because George Westing house made air breaks. George Pullman invented hotels on wheels which was a resting area on the train so passengers can eat and sleep when they needed to. Soon after hotel on wheels was discovered railroad companies began to build stations for the passengers to wait for the train the needed to catch. Those stations are now known as the Bart station. If George Westinghouse hadn’t invented air brakes the railroad industry would be a failing business because there might’ve been a lot of accidents. People might’ve chosen to walk or catch a bus.
To make sure the railroad expansion became successful many businessmen bought bonds and stocks to raise money to pay for the cost of railroads. Big railroad companies bought smaller railroad companies or put them out of work. By 1880 there were 93,000 miles of railroad tracks built, in 1900s only seven companies controlled almost all railroad tracks in California. In the United States the trains moved cattle, wood they also sold business and personal mail. When the railroad companies began to expand so did other industries. One salesman named Montgomery ward started a mail ordering business. He sold everything from clothes and shoes to toys and merchandise.
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