https://padlet.com/21roundryan/2oskozkuor6r Made with serendipity en-us 2018-09-25 17:29:37 UTC 2025-10-08 11:52:43 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Clouds.png 21roundryan https://padlet.com/21roundryan/2oskozkuor6r/wish/286166459 Alexander Graham Bell is best known for his invention of the telephone, for which he received his first patent in 1876. The invention of the telephone had a great impact towards society and broadened the idea of communication. The whole point of the telephone is to instantly connect with others around the world at great distances. The telephone has made business more efficient, saved money from having to travel back and forth from distant places, and it made transactions able to occur more quickly. ]]> 2018-09-26 17:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/21roundryan/2oskozkuor6r/wish/286166459 21roundryan https://padlet.com/21roundryan/2oskozkuor6r/wish/286168847 Bessemer is best known for devising a steel production process that inspired the Industrial Revolution.  he made is possible to build skyscraper and expanded the nation. Steel was important to the industrial revolution because it was a major tool used to make many of the new inventions and it contributed to the making of railroads. It was the first cost-efficient industrial process for large scale production of steel from molten pig iron by taking out impurities from pig iron using an air blast.]]> 2018-09-26 17:34:56 UTC https://padlet.com/21roundryan/2oskozkuor6r/wish/286168847 21roundryan https://padlet.com/21roundryan/2oskozkuor6r/wish/286169018 The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The Act required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," but did not empower the government to fix specific rates.]]> 2018-09-26 17:35:09 UTC https://padlet.com/21roundryan/2oskozkuor6r/wish/286169018 21roundryan https://padlet.com/21roundryan/2oskozkuor6r/wish/286169526 Term referring to larger companies in size, power, profits and influence. ]]> 2018-09-26 17:35:58 UTC https://padlet.com/21roundryan/2oskozkuor6r/wish/286169526 21roundryan https://padlet.com/21roundryan/2oskozkuor6r/wish/286169966 The world's First Transcontinental Railroad was built between 1863 and 1869 to join the east of the United States on the Atlantic coast with the west of the United States to the Pacific coast.   It was 1,776 miles long. The transcontinental railroad allowed for the transportation of goods over long distances. While the nation was still divided due to the Civil War, this railroad helped unify the nation eventually making it a super power.]]> 2018-09-26 17:36:36 UTC https://padlet.com/21roundryan/2oskozkuor6r/wish/286169966 21roundryan https://padlet.com/21roundryan/2oskozkuor6r/wish/286170315 most interesting one is is probability monopoly because its crazy that business men had more power that the government did. ]]> 2018-09-26 17:37:07 UTC https://padlet.com/21roundryan/2oskozkuor6r/wish/286170315 21roundryan https://padlet.com/21roundryan/2oskozkuor6r/wish/286170632 I can connect t withe telephone BC without it i would have good communication with anyone. h ]]> 2018-09-26 17:37:37 UTC https://padlet.com/21roundryan/2oskozkuor6r/wish/286170632