Technology and Society in the Industrial Age

Question 1

1. Samuel Morse invented the X telephone✔ telegraph.2. A little more than thirty years after it was invented, the X telephone✔ telegraph was rapidly replaced by the ✔ telephonetelegraph. 3. Today’s telephone uses the same basic ✔ voice technologiespartswires that were used in 1876.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

X telephone; ✔ telegraph

Question 2

Which problems did you include in your answer?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

The telegraph usually required people to go to offices.; The telegraph wasn’t easy to carry around.; The telegraph couldn’t transmit voices.; The telegraph required a special code to communicate.

Question 3

How did new methods of rail transportation help people commute in cities?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

They made it possible for people to live in one part of the city and work in another.; They made the city feel more convenient.; They made it easier for people to get around the city to shop or do business.; They made it possible for cities to continue to support more residents.

Question 4

Which of these forms of transportation was not an innovation that used rails?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

the automobile

Question 5

Look at these three pictures. Each one represents a modern version of Edison’s original idea. Select the Edison invention that matches each picture. [image 1] [image 2] [image 3] incandescent lightbulbmotion picture machine✔ phonograph✔ incandescent lightbulbX motion picture machinephonographincandescent lightbulb✔ motion picture machineX phonograph

Revolt · Accepted Answer

incandescent lightbulb; motion picture machine; ✔ phonograph

Question 6

How did automobiles affect Americans’ ability to get from place to place?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

by creating more freedom and convenience

Question 7

Which of the following changes did you address in your answer?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

commuter transit; automobiles; telegraphs and telephones; lightbulbs; entertainment products; consumer goods

Question 8

From a telegraph office, you could send a message to almost any place in the world instantaneously. Yet, there were problems with the telegraph. Identify at least one of the telegraph’s problems

Revolt · Accepted Answer

the telegraph was expensive and required specialized operators

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