... and undersea cables. The telephone, invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, had promise of being an even greater technology. After that, in 1901, the first radio signals were sent across the Atlantic, heralding, to the inventor, a day when wires would not be needed to send signals.From iron to steelAt the same time as electricity was replacing steam, steel was ... a transportation revolution. During it, new modes of transportation were pioneered. Steamships and railroads were to drastically change the way people travelled, transported things, and lived their lives. Steamships In 1807...

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... nonviolent, aside from the war. In 1774, King Louis XVI made a decision that could have prevented the French Revolution by breathing new life into the French economy: he appointed Physiocrat Robert Turgot as Controller General of Finance. The Physiocrats were a small band of followers of the French physician Francois Quesnay, whose economic prescriptions included reduced taxes, less regulation, the elimination of ... to cut our throats." Turgot's successors, following a mercantilist policy of government intervention, only made the French economy worse. In a desperate move to find money ...

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... converted to steam power as well. Shortly after the steam engine was developed, George Stephenson invented a steam locomotive called the Rocket, and the first steam-powered ship was invented by Robert Fulton. These inventions, and the fact that machines were not taxed as much as people, caused large social upheavals. As small mills and cottage industries that depended on the stream ... or a group of people putting energy into product could complete with the energy derived from steam. With locomotives and steamships, goods could now be transferred very quickly across a country or ocean, ...

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