Inventions
Inventors
Long Ago
TION Words
What Has Changed
100

Changed communication by allowing people to talk to each other over wires.  

What is the telephone?

100
Telephone

Who was Alexander Graham Bell?

100

This method of transportation was used to carry people and their things when the distance was too far to walk.  

What is a horse with a carriage?  

100

The number of people in a community or country or world.  

What is population?


100

A new factory opens and they need workers.  Lots of people move to that community.  

What is the population?  

200

This invention used a special code when sending messages for communication.  

What is the telegraph?  

200

Telegraph

Who was Samuel Morse?  

200

This method of communication could take weeks or months to receive a message from someone delievered by the Pony Express.  

What is writing letters?  

200

A method of traveling from one place to another.

What is transportation?

200
A new subway is built in a city.

What is transportation?  

300

The Wright Brothers changed transportation with their invention of this.  

What is the airplane?  


300

Airplane

Who were the Wright Brothers?

300

Used to light rooms and for reading or doing tasks when it was dark outside.  

What are candles?  


300

How we send and receive information through words and messages.  

What is communication?  

300

A steel mill closes down and the factory closes.  People move away to find new jobs.  

What is population?  

400

The invention of this revolutionized transportation, as people no longer had to walk or ride horses.  

What is the wheel?  


400

Lightbulb

Who was Thomas Edison?  

400

Blacksmith, farmer, cobbler, seamstress and lamp-lighter.  

What are jobs from long ago?  

400

Something new or different that changes how things are done.  

What is innovation?  

400

A new railroad is built that allowed trains to travel all the way across the United States.   

What is transportation?  


500

The invention of this made the use of candles and light by the fire unnecessary in homes.   

What is the lightbulb?  


500
Odometer

Who was Benjamin Franklin?  

500

Using this device, short messages were sent over wires with short and long taps.  

What is the telegraph?  

500

A new or unique product or machine or method that has never been made or did not exist previously.  

What is an invention?  

500
Messages can be sent instantly through texts or direct messaging.  Emails can be sent quickly.  

What is communication?  


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