Inventions+(1-1)

media type="file" key="bskgpodcast.mp3" Electricity - Electricity was used in everyday life. It was mostly used at nighttime to keep the businesses open later. Without the electricity they would have to close at the evening and they would have to close up the shop early. The electricity helped the businesses to stay open until 10 or even all night the business could stay open. The electricity helped to also advertise more differently and more effectively. They could also sell different things.

Telegraph - The telegraph was an essential inventions for the 1880s. A great thing about the telegraph was that the news spread quicker than it would by a messenger. They could also use morse code to so no one knew what they were talking about. The telegraph was very important and used by many big business owners.

Railroads - The railroads were very important too. The companies would send trains everyday back and forth to send packages and goods to other people many miles away or even just close but too big to send in the mail. Coal was a very common item that was sent back and forth through people. Passengers could even be sent back and forth too.

Bessemer Process - Steel was far too expensive to make bridges or the framework for buildings and wrought iron had been used throughout the Industrial Revolution. High volume production of low-cost steel in Britain and the United States by the Bessemer process soon revolutionized building construction and provided steel to replace iron in railroad rails and many other uses.

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