The Industrial Revolution was a time where man had a chance to expand his horizons and move on into the next age. 

The greatest historical event in transportation on the continent occurred at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869, as the Union Pacific tracks joined those of the Central Pacific Railroad.  The Railroad was very successful and helped them in many ways such as to transport coal and also  many other ways, therefore it made life alot easier.

                        The American automobile became known worldwide. By the mid-tweentieth century the high class or the middle class people had owned automobiles. It was said that many people had become known to fall in love with their automobile!

 

Communication

"In 1837 the first electrical telegraph instruments were invented by Samuel Morse in the United States and by Sir Charles Wheatstone and Sir William F. Cooke in Britain. Morse sent the first public telegraph message in 1844. Pictured here is the original Morse receiving device." (encarta)

"A penny post on all letters was inaugurated in Britain in 1840 after it was discovered that handling, not the distance sent, was the critical cost in delivering mall. All letters weighing a half-ounce or less could be carried for an English penny (two cents). By 1875 the Universal Postal Union had been established to facilitate the transmission of mail between foreign countries. In 1871 telegraph cables reached from London to Australia; massages could be flashed halfway around the globe in a matter of minutes, speeding commercial transactions.

Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 transmitted the human voice over a wire, although it was several decades before the telephone became popular. At the end of the century the wireless telegraph became a standard safety device on oceangoing vessels. Radio did not come until 1920; then it was commercially exploited in America to a much greater extent than in Europe. In Europe the broadcasting systems were either operated or closely controlled by the state  and did not carry commercial advertising. The world continued to shrink at a great rate as new means of transport and communication speeded the pace of life."(ecology industrial Revolution)

Samuel Morse's original telegraph transmitter and receiver, 1837

The original Morse telegraph did not use a key and sounder. Instead it was a device designed to print patterns at a distance. The transmitter, in front, had code slugs shaped in hills and valleys. These represented the more familiar dots and dashes of Morse code.

 This machine was very popular during the Industrial Revolution, but the majority of people who used this or owned one had to be high class people or very rich. There was not alot of them produced yet so alot of average people could  not have one. Sometimes they would just have one in a town in a certain building and the townspeople would have to take turns using it, but in those days alot of people did not need to use the phone many people would just go and tell the person in public, this was way cheaper back in the day.