In this Modern Marvels video, brought to you by the History Channel, learn about the development of the telegraph in the 1840s and how it revolutionized communication. Samuel Morse was the first person to transmit a message via telegraph wires.
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Being one of the most significant inventions of the 1880s, the automobile drastically changed the lives of Americans and the world. Modern Marvels takes on the invention of the car.
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The electric light is one of the everyday conveniences that most affects our lives. Modern Marvels reveals how it was invented in 1879 by Thomas Alva Edison.
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In the 1920s improvements to the invention of the radio finally lead to the introduction of radio stations. Modern Marvels takes on the invention of the radio.
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The transistor was invented in 1947 at Bell Telephone Laboratories by a team led by physicists John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley. Modern Marvels takes on the invention of the transistor.
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The first digital computer was invented in 1642 by Blaise Pascal. It consisted of numbers entered in dials but, it could only add. Modern Marvels takes on the invention of computers.
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