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| Industrial Revolution | universal change from making goods at home with hand tools to the manufacture of goods in factories with machines |
| industrialist | person who supported and encouraged the changes in industry during the industrial revolution |
| merchant | people who buy and sell goods for a profit |
| Transportation Revolution | change in the way people moved around locally and around the world |
| George Stephenson | English engineer who built the first successful steam locomotive called the "Rocket" |
| “Great Western" | a steam powered ship that crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 15 days in 1833 |
| Robert Fulton | inventor that in 1807 launched the "Clermont" the first successful steam-driven side-paddle vessel |
| telegraph | communication device invented by Samuel B. Morse that sent electric signals across a wire that could be tapped out into coded messages from one end of a country or continent to another in a matter of minutes |
| Alexander Graham Bell | American inventor who invented the telephone in 1875 |
| Guglielmo Marconi | Italian scientist who invented the first wireless communication device in 1895 and by 1899 his invention was being used by British battleships |
| steamboat | steam-driven vessels with side-paddles that traveled up and down the Mississippi River carrying cotton and other manufactured goods from the South to the North and vice-versa |
| wireless telegraph | the first wireless communication device invented by Marconi that used airways and antennas to send and receive messages over great distances without the use of wires |
| Communication Revolution | worldwide change in the way people communicated using new inventions such as the telegraph that allowed faster communication over greater distances among industrialized nations |
| John McAdam | Scottish engineer who developed a new method of making road using crushed stones to make smooth long-lasting road surfaces |
| locomotive | steam-powered rail engine that was first developed in England by George Stephenson in 1814 |
