Many great innovations that benefited people came to earth in the 19th and 20th century. These new creations vastly improved people’s way of lives by making things easier and faster to do while some provide news and knowledge in a flash.
The amazing ideas were formulated by brilliant inventors so that they could address the current needs to prevent time consuming tasks and at the same time deliver good results. Through these notable wonders which we often use were the computer, television, radio and telephone people were able to live fully and efficiently.We tackled about the most useful things and how did they become our everyday need and without these said innovations, our generation would not enjoy as much as we do today. Innovations of the 19th and 20th Century that Changed he World Time passed by very quickly and before we knew it the whole world was widely benefiting from the advancement in science and technology.
During the 19th and 20th century, amazing innovations helped improved the world and people’s way of life.No one can deny the big lift that we received from it and we should give honor for those who made things possible and for those who made our generation live more comfortable through their creations. What are the creations and how do these creations work? And what are the impacts of the said inventions to people’s lives? These questions will be answered here in our research. This research focuses on the greatest inventions made during the 19th and 20th century and how do these machines work.
It will also tackle how do these creations influence the lives of people and what were the effects of these wonders.We will now go back to the world of the 19th and 20th century wherein most of what we have today started way back then by brilliant innovators who constantly seeked for solutions in the wide variety of problems that people face in their everyday life. Way back in 1800 when Count Alessandro Volta invented the battery. As we all know today, we use batteries in almost all gadgets and appliances we use and thanks to Mr. Volta’s creation of the battery, we can use our devices efficiently without needing to plug-in to a socket.
A battery is a device that converts chemical nergy directly to electrical energy. It consists of a number of voltaic cells; each voltaic cell consists of two half-cells connected in series by a conductive electrolyte containing anions and cations. At the same year, the steam engine was also introduced by Oliver Vans and Richard Trevithick independently. A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. Steam engines are external combustion engines, where the working fluid is separate from the combustion products. The steam engine paved the way for the locomotive and other devices that uses engines.
In 1809, Humphry Davy invented the first electric light- the first arc lamp. The electric arc in an arc lamp consists of gas that is initially ionized by a high voltage and therefore becomes electrically conductive. If this idea was not brought out we will suffer every night because of the poor lighting produced by tiny charcoal powered flames. This would later progress into the electric light bulb. It was first patented in England by Josepeh Swan after having been experimented with it since 1850.
Then, Thomas Edison later on developed the work of Swan and was given the patent by the USA in 1878.This is now what we use in our home. A year after the initial idea of arc lamp was made, the printing press was created by Friedrich Koenig of Germany with the help of Andreas Friedrich Bauer. The first issue of The Times with the new presses was published in November 29, 1814. The start of the 2nd quarter of the 1800’s was welcomed by the creation of Locomotive in the United States of America. The idea was from Richard Trevithic k who was the first one to release successful a locomotive which is actually the steam engine.
Locomotive has four operational role namely: Train engine was the technical name for the locomotive which is attached to the front of a railwaytrain for the purpose of hauling that train. Exceptionally, where operating facilities exist for push-pulloperation, the train engine may be attached to the rear of the train; pilot engine, a locomotive attached in front of the train engine. It was widely known that before the end of the 19th century, the locomotive changed the face of America as it furthet pushed the civilization in the country.Several years later, the telegraph revolutionized things and made an impact in a big way. The transfer of information gained a speed that had been unimaginable before the telegraph. It made communication a lot easier by means of speed.
The telegraph was developed independently in the United States in 1837 with Sir Thomas Edison as one of the biggest contributor. Our next invention is the rifle. It was in the mid of the nineteenth century that the firearms provided a cutting edge to the technology of that era. The rifle heavily contributed in the war as it was used as one of the main weapons by then.
The idea of the rifle was from the British Army during the Napoleonic wars in the 19th century as they seek for a stronger bullet to fire in their opponents. In 1837, the development for a new device was made by Charles Babbage. This device was conceptualize by Babbage from the early beginnings of computing machines such as the abacus by the chinese. It’s called the computer. In ancient times, the term computer used to refer to a device used in making calculations but Charles Babbage made this critical move that made him design the first programmable mechanical computer.
Babbage's machines were among the first mechanical computers, although they were not actually completed, largely because of funding problems and personality issues. Although Babbage's machines were mechanical and unwieldy, their basic architecture was very similar to a modern computer. This was the ancestor of modern computers we now have today. The word “computer” now describes not just a device that can perform calculations but an even more powerful device that can do many powerful things that makes our lives easier. Our generation should be very thankful to Babbage because of the great favor he has given us.
This next invention is about the arguably the best invention in the 19th century according to some people. This wonder brought communication to the next level as it made people to talk to each other through an odd shaped thing by putting their ears near it and talking to it. Yes it is what you are thinking of, the telephone. Although the creation of the telephone had many uncertainties, credits for the invention of the electric telephone is frequently disputed, and new controversies over the issue have arisen from time to time.There were several inventors who did pioneering experimental work on voice transmission over a wire and improved on each other's ideas.
They were Innocenzo Manzetti, Antonio Meucci, Johann Philipp Reis, Elisha Gray, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison, among others, have all been credited with pioneering work on the telephone. An undisputed fact is that Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be awarded a patent for the electric telephone by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in March 1876.That first patent by Bell was he master patent of the telephone, from which other patents for electric telephone devices and features followed. This great thing was one of the most useful to people until today even though we are now on the computers and smartphones age. Now for the great inventions in the 20th century let’s start with the Nuclear. Nuclear power was a big energy source to the twentieth century while steam power had been to the nineteenth century.
Suddenly humanity had a power source that didn’t pollute, was efficient and practically unlimited, and so had the potential to change the planet overnight.Unfortunately, it was a two-edged sword in that this same energy source could be used to create the most destructive weapons in history, threatening human survival with its very presence. Additionally, while nuclear power plants didn’t threw pollutants into the air, in the hands of the truly incompetent they had the capacity to render whole regions radioactive and, as such, uninhabitable for generations. This nuclear power plants would be very useful to people if it would be used properly and the only question is whether we’re mature enough to handle that power into the next century.
Next we have the airplane. The development and trials for making an airplane started in 1890’s but the first ever successful one was produced in 1900’s. The original idea was from Milton Wright and the Wright brothers developed the idea and placed their imagination in it to make it real. Just as the locomotive made the world a smaller place in the nineteenth century, the airplane did the same for us in the twentieth century, shrinking our planet to the point that a person could fly anywhere in the world in a matter of hours.Not only have they made travel quick and safe, but aircraft provide many other services as well.
Another very useful invention for the people, the automobile. Everyone rides automobiles almost everyday and it is a known fact that it is the basic means of transporation today. Though under development in Europe during the nineteenth century, the automobile didn’t really become a practical and reliable source of transportation until the twentieth century. It also brought about a revolution in the market place, suddenly making it possible to truck in goods that otherwise would be impossible to acquire.Most of all, Henry Ford’s assembly-line production style made the automobile affordable and accessible to the average person, only the fabulously wealthy could afford. The automobile gave everyone a degree of mobility and personal freedom our forefathers could only dream of, and turned entire generations of teenagers into raging wild drivers.
What do you often do at night after dinner? It’s undeniably almost everyones habit, watching television. The idea came from a student in Germany who first patented the first television system in 1884.This was later on improved and modified by Boris Rosing who became the first inventor to use a Cathode Ray Tube in an experimental television system. Other developers of the television were John Logie Baird, Kalman TihanyiLeon Theremin, Herbert Ives, and Philio Farnsworth. Yes it destroys brain cells and renders people emotionally and psychologically damaged, but really, where would we be without the television. If it hasn’t been developed way back then our lives today will be so boring.
It is society’s baby-sitter, news source, teacher, entertainer, and story-teller. When in competent hands, television can even be useful at times. Mostly, though, it fills our days with vapidity and all manner of inane and obnoxious commercials, and is the single greatest reason that families no longer eat in the kitchen or dining room anymore, but instead huddle in the living room around their television eating microwavable food and spilling soft drinks on the sofa. Still, even while we pretend we hate it.One of the most critical in revolutionizing our world, the internet.
Today internet serves as an open and large library of any information you wish to look for given and uploaded by users. It contains vast amount of knowledge and tools that any people may need in their everyday life especially for the students who wants to research their lessons or learn new things. The Internet is a global system of interconnectedcomputer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide.It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies.
The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertextdocuments of the World Wide Web (WWW) and theinfrastructure to support email. The computer rendered the typewriter obsolete and made writing in long-hand a thing of the past, but it took the internet to truly turn the computer into the monster it is today.The last invention we will share is the radio. The radio was developed by few people namely Thomas Edison, Natan Stubblefield, Reginald Fessenden, David Hughes, Nikola Tesla, Oliver Lodge, Alexander Muirhead, Alexander Popov, Marconi, and Landell de Moura.
Edwin Armstrong invented Frequency-modulated also known as the FM radio. Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves withfrequencies significantly below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space. Information is carried by systematically changing (modulating) some property of the radiated waves, such as amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width.
When radio waves pass through an electrical conductor, the oscillating fields induce an alternating current in the conductor. This can be detected and transformed into sound or other signals that carry information. Few people today can appreciate the impact the advent of radio had on the twentieth century.Not only did it suddenly make it possible for a person to be heard from hundreds or even thousands of miles away without the use of a wire but it was the center of family life through the end of the Second World War and into the doldrums of the fifties, when it was gradually replaced by that new-fangled contraption, the television. In its day, however, it was every bit as vital to existence as the television, the computer, the microwave, and the cell phone are to us today.
Although we have computers, television and cellphones today, the radio was the one that paved the way for wireless connectivity.
