Inventions transform America
The second half of the 1800's was a prosperous time for inventors like Tesla. Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone revolutionized America with its way of letting people to talk with one another from far away. Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb lit up dark places more efficiently than gas lamps.
Excerpt explaining how Tesla fits in with the other inventors of his era.
— Personal student interview with William H. Terbo, grand-nephew and only living relative of Tesla.
— Personal student interview with William H. Terbo, grand-nephew and only living relative of Tesla.
Americans who were born in the 1840's and 1850's would experience enormous changes in their lifetimes. Some of these changes resulted from a sweeping technological revolution.
Their major source of light, for example, would change from candles, to kerosene lamps, and then to electric light bulbs.
They would see their transportation evolve from walking and horse power to steam-powered locomotives, to electric trolley cars, to gasoline-powered automobiles. "
—Library of Congress
Major invention timeline. Source: http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/robotics-software/singular-simplicity