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So, steam power had by the last third of the nineteenth century wrought revolutions in mining, manufacturing, and transportation on land, the rivers, and the oceans. That would seem to be enough. But the inventors of the nineteenth century would wrest yet one more revolution from steam, by generating from it electric light, and then…

The telephone was first introduced at the Centennial Exposition in 1876 and was an instant success. Although first rented only to "persons of good breeding" and seen as an expensive luxury for doctors and businessmen, the telephone soon transformed American life. Trees gave way to telephone poles as operators known as "hello girls" began to connect a sprawling continent.

The first city-wide fire alarm system goes into operation, Nikola Tesla describes his AC power system and NASA rehearses for the moon landing… It all happened This Week in Tech History. https://youtu.be/I5fjUGQp5J4 This week in 1857 - William Channing and Moses Farmer received a patent f