How The World Of Technology Changed During The American Civil War?

What’s the first thing you do when you want to talk to your mom but she is not at home? You just get your cell phone and call her. That was an easy task. How about if you lived during the 1860’s when the American Civil War took place? Now, how would you contact her? Not that easy anymore. For the last generations, we take everything for granted. We are surrounded by technology and we don’t even give a thought how everything was created. Some things that have changed our world of technology during the last century are: telegraphs, cars, and television. We consider all this things a form of entertainment or even a necessity; when before they didn’t exist and people lived perfectly fine without them. The non-electric telegraph was invented in

He used pulses of current to reflect an electromagnet, which moved a marker to produce written codes on a strip of paper; this was the invention of the “Morse code”. By 1844 this code was known as the “International Morse”. The first telegraph was sent on May 24, 1844. Samuel sends a message “What hath God wrought” from Supreme Court Chamber in the Capitol in Washington, D.C., to the B & O Railroad Depot in Baltimore, Maryland (About.com,1997). By the following years telegraphs were used nation wide. They were used from to contacting a love one in the other side of the world to making business with someone on your neighboring city. The signals could go trough land and sea; at the time it was the latest technology there could be and everyone was fascinated by it. This machine was used during World War I and it helped both sides for quicker information. Telegraph played a huge role during the 1800‘s and 1900’s, but as time passed by and technology improved this machine was substituted by the

They would be wait days or even weeks to get from one place to another, until cars were invented. The first type of car invented was the steam car. In 1769, the first car was a military tractor invented by a French engineer, Nicolas Joseph Cugnot. He used a steam motor to power the vehicle. It was used by the French Army to transport artillery at a speed of 2.5 miles per hour on only three wheels (About.com, 2008). The second type of car was an electric vehicle and it was invented between 1832 and 1839; it was called Electric Pahaeton. Robert Anderson from Scotland was the inventor. These cars were the first ones to use non-rechargeable electric cells. France and Great Britain were the first nations to support the widespread development of electric vehicles in the late 1800’s (About.com, 2008). The third and final car that was invented was the gas powered car. According to About.com there is not only one inventor for the gas powered car (About.com, 2008). Even though there were many inventors for cars, a famous one in the United States was Henry Ford. He invented the Tim Lizzie in 1908. This car was low budget it cost $850 dollars, had 20 horse power, 4 cylinder and 11,000 were sold within the first year. By 1925 in Michigan Company Town he now was producing a car at a rate of 10 seconds and reduced its price to $298 dollars. Cars have made a huge