Inventions
Changed communication by allowing people to talk to each other over wires.
What is the telephone?
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
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?
The number of people in a community or country or world.
What is population?
A new factory opens and they need workers. Lots of people move to that community.
What is the population?
This invention used a special code when sending messages for communication.
What is the telegraph?
Telegraph
Who was Samuel Morse?
This method of communication could take weeks or months to receive a message from someone delievered by the Pony Express.
What is writing letters?
A method of traveling from one place to another.
What is transportation?
What is transportation?
The Wright Brothers changed transportation with their invention of this.
What is the airplane?
Airplane
Who were the Wright Brothers?
Used to light rooms and for reading or doing tasks when it was dark outside.
What are candles?
How we send and receive information through words and messages.
What is communication?
A steel mill closes down and the factory closes. People move away to find new jobs.
What is population?
The invention of this revolutionized transportation, as people no longer had to walk or ride horses.
What is the wheel?
Lightbulb
Who was Thomas Edison?
Blacksmith, farmer, cobbler, seamstress and lamp-lighter.
What are jobs from long ago?
Something new or different that changes how things are done.
What is innovation?
A new railroad is built that allowed trains to travel all the way across the United States.
What is transportation?
The invention of this made the use of candles and light by the fire unnecessary in homes.
What is the lightbulb?
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
Using this device, short messages were sent over wires with short and long taps.
What is the telegraph?
A new or unique product or machine or method that has never been made or did not exist previously.
What is an invention?
What is communication?