HIST 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Gustavus Franklin Swift, Thomas Edison, Morse Code
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Significance: led to better transportation of meat due to refrigeration. Products were able to be preserved for longer time and the refrigeration provided better conditions. Significance: eliminated dependency on candles and oil lamps, and created an easy and efficient way to provide light for households, markets, transportation etc. Significance: created a future for sound recording and helped generate new ideas for new inventions based on sound recording. it was foundation of many recording and music playing devices that developed later on. Significance: information communicated was widespread in a short amount of time. people no longer had to wait long periods of time to decode messages via telegraph or morse code. Therefore, telephone affected the speed of how one communicates. Significance: trains had deadly accidents when original brake systems suddenly failed. However, the air provided safety for passengers and prevented trains accidents. Reason: industrial revolution transformed urban life and gave people a higher expectations of improving standard of living.
