Gilded Age Inventions

The 3 most important inventions from the Gilded Age are the telephone, the lightbulb, and the skyscraper. The telephone, created by Alexander Graham Bell in 1875, had the ability to connect two people from a given distance together. Evolving from the human messenger and telegraph, the telephone improved upon those by ameliorating its speed and comprehensibility. As a result of this creation, people, today, can connect to each other from anywhere in the world, thus uniting those could never have otherwise met. The practical light bulb brought electrical lighting to the average American home. Although there were lightbulbs before his time, they were not effective. For example, before Thomas Edison revolutionized the common bulb, light bulbs were,
The first generation iPod was one of the first mobile devices that a consumer could carry around comfortably. Before this, the bulky, disc-shaped Sony Walkmen dominated the market, requiring the user to have to go out of his way to purchase a CD and needing to change the CD in the event that he wanted to listen to a different album. Like changing a lens on a DSLR camera, it was impractical and time consuming. Therefore, Steve Jobs created the iPod, a mini personal computer that could hold music on a small device that allowed the user to switch from song to song easily, reducing the weight of the music kit and the time needed to change the song. The iPod also paved the path for the future of all mobile downloading through the creation of iTunes, a service still widely used today. The first generation iPhone was, perhaps, the most revolutionary piece of technology of the 2000s, bringing to the table a microprocessor, a touch screen, an iPod, a camera, a television, a telephone, a web browser, and a calculator all in a singular package. Before this phone, other phones used a trackpad or a stylus as means of interacting with the device. Consequently, losing or breaking the tool resulted in a useless piece of technology, in addition it the bulk of having to carry around another pen only for a phone. Steve Jobs aimed to ameliorate the situation by using a
In both of the time periods, the methods through which people could exchange information were simplified into less time-consuming bits of information. Furthermore, the Gilded Age sparked a wave of industrialization; similarly, the modern era provided a shift towards software-based consumer