The technology of the 1800s

This blog I'm doing is going to be on the technology of the 1800s.  Technology has come very far but I believe that the most important inventions and ideas were made during this era.  The first example of this would be electricity which was invented by Thomas Edison in the early 1800s.  His invention alone paved the way for many opportunities to come.  It helped with the economy, the workforce, agriculture, and car and telephone production. The first opportunity being the electric light (1809) which helped with the production of factories which could now be built anywhere instead of being close to waterways or canals.  It helped the economy in the way that it gave more jobs for production like the sewing machine (1830) made great jobs for the people who could work in the factories being built anywhere because of it.  The steam locomotive (1814) was invented as well in this time and it helped with trade and transporting materials, and also people to different places. The telephone is the next and it helped with communication (1876). Before this people either used letters or if you were lucky you were given the opportunity to use mores code.  The health field made an advancement because safer milk was being produced because of pasteurization.  Also the biggest spring of this time was the first car with an internal-combustion engine (1855).  This was one of the greatest advancements in this time because aside from electricity people needed cars to travel the new roads that were being produced around this time.  There were many more inventions of the 1800s that have made huge advancements throughout time but these were the ones I thought were the most important that that have made an impact of our lives today.

Links!!

Inventions of the 1800s http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1800s.html

Medicine http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/history/history03.htm

Cars http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/History-Of-Electric-Vehicles.htm

Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H14m1VCVeWY