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Erie Canal

Bell's career as an inventor and armature scientist began when he was only 14 years old. He designed a device that was able to separate the husks from wheat by combining a nailbrush and paddle to form a brushing wheel. Bell as one might think was no ordinary child. By the age of 16 he was a music instructor at an all male boarding school. Alexander also enjoyed to read and found himself drawn toward the German physicist Herman Von Helmlsltz who, in one of his writings discussed how vowel sound could be produced using tuning forks and resonators. The only problem with Von Helmlsltz's work was that it was in German and since Bell could not read German he made what he called a very valuable blunder. Alexander interpreted von Helmlotz's work as claiming vowel sounds could be carried over a wire. This blunder in turn began Bell's experiments with electricity. Alexander's original dream was to produce a telegraph that was capable of sending multiple messages at one time. This invention when complete was to be called the harmonic telegraph. While working on this telegraph Alexander Bell acquired the assistance of a gentleman named Thomas Watson who was known for devising tools that helped in improving numerous inventions. Later while discussing ways to improve Bell's harmonic telegraph the two discussed the dream of sending human voices over the telegraph wires. .
             Then, on June 2, 1875 while working on their project the duo attempted to free a reed that was wound too tightly around an electromagnet they were doing experiments on. During this time the reed slipped and produced a twang. The twang reminded Bell of some of the same tones in the human voice. When this occurred it was said that Bell realized his dream was more of a reality now than ever. From this moment on Bell worked vigorously to complete his telephone. Bell later discovered that if a wire was submersed in a liquid and then vibrated by the human voice the wire would produce an undulating current allowing for the human voice to be transmitted over a wire.


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1. The Erie Canal

... surveyed. Seven more years went by before the first shovelful of earth was dug on the fourth of July, 1817. The canal was to become the famous Erie Canal. Money was very scarce in America, so the high wages paid by the canal contractors attracted thousands of immigrants -mostly Irish- as well as farmers and villagers along the route. The 80 cents to one ... installed to prevent washouts and floods. At last all the delays and difficulties were overcome. "Amateurs though they were, the commissioners managed to build the canal in record time."(Cowan, 103) On October 25, 1825, the entire le...

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2. The Erie Canal

... surveyed. Seven more years went by before the first shovelful of earth was dug on the fourth of July, 1817. The canal was to become the famous Erie Canal. Money was very scarce in America, so the high wages paid by the canal contractors attracted thousands of immigrants -mostly Irish- as well as farmers and villagers along the route. The 80 cents to one ... installed to prevent washouts and floods. At last all the delays and difficulties were overcome. "Amateurs though they were, the commissioners managed to build the canal in record time."(Cowan, 103) On October 25, 1825, the entire le...

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  • Grade Level: High School

3. Cleveland: The Mistake by the Lake?

... a port of entry in 1805, the area was virtually uninhabited. The problems with the harbor continued to inhibit shipment into the area. It was not until the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 that the township would grow into a commercial center. In the early years of Cleveland's history, few ships were able to make their way into the Cuyahoga because of ... ; Cleveland had a good harbor and could benefit from the advantages of its situation. The importance of the harbor improvements on commercial success cannot be overemphasized. With the opening of the Erie Canal, traffic into the Great ...

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4. The Industrial Revolution

... nineteenth centuries, the U.S. was improving its transportation methods not only were the steamboat and railroads underway so were canals. A major was to link Lake Erie and the other Great Lakes with the Atlantic Coast through a canal. The Erie Canal would connect a port of New York City by beginning at the Hudson River. New York City mayor DeWitt Clinton supported efforts for its construction. On ... July 4, 1817 construction of the Erie Canal began in Rome, New York. On October 25, 1825 the entire length of the Erie Canal was complete. The canal was 363 miles long, 40 feet wide, and 4...

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5. Brief History of the Mid-1800's

... modern era is being born that leads to the industrial revolution. In upstate New York, a man made river is cutting through the wilderness. The Erie Canal is born, which is the biggest construction project in the western world in the last 4,000 years. It is over 300 miles long, dug ... 60 feet high, just 30 miles from the finish line is, Lake Erie. This canal would link the Atlantic Ocean to the middle of America. As a result, this canal turned the North into a global economic power house. The man who built this canal was, a New York's gung ho governor DeWitt Clinton. Born into wealth ......

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6. The First Industrial Revolution

... of the late 18th-19th centuries in America it becomes apparent that the invention of the cotton gin, the steamboat, and the canal were all major technological developments which affected American industry almost as much as the factory system and mass production. Eli Whitney's invention ... the horse, they offered enormous economic advantages to shippers. Because there is less friction to overcome, a team plodding along a towpath could pull a canal barge with a 100-ton load and make better time over long distances than it could pulling a single ton in a wagon on the finest ... feasible i...

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7. Early American Transportation

... small in value. This failure of the turnpikes to provide cheap transportation routs over a considerable distance sealed the doom of the turnpike. The boom of canal building was started in the 1820's with the great need of fast transportation of large amounts across great distances. Canals became a great asset when the roads ... and the many western canals would link the Great Lakes and waterways running to the east. The Erie Canal started in Albany on the Hudson River and traveled up the state of New York to Buffalo to Lake Erie. The canal ran for a distance of 364 miles. By the 1840's t...

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8. New York City: A Comparison and History

... Witt Clinton, the governor and mayor, believed that New York City would become a world city as he oversaw the building and development of the Erie Canal in 1825. He demonstrated symbolism of the occurrence by pouring Lake Erie water into the Atlantic Ocean. He summed up the future of the city when he stated that New York City "would become the emporium of ... population grew from 33,131 to 60,515 people. The Irish and the French who were artisans settled in New York, where they could find a market for their skills. The Erie Canal had been completed in 1825 which strengthened the economy...

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9. The Life and Works of Herman Melville

... the Albany Classical School, and then worked for a short time as a teacher in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Although he studied surveying at Landingsburgh Academy (with the hopes of taking part in the Erie Canal Project), Melville did not gain a post with the project and instead shipped out of America as a cabin boy on the St. Lawrence, bound for Liverpool. By this time, Melville had ... ," a drifter and fatherless. He returned to try his fortune in the West. His Uncle Thomas Melville had moved to Galena, Illinois. With a friend, Eli Fly, Melville left Albany, following the Erie Canal to Bu...

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