The Industrial Revolution of the 1800s changed America after the civil war. It brought new form of transportation, millionaire, and new inventions that would better our communications with each other. The major people of this time were Samuel Morse, Henry Bessemer, Andrew Bell, Thomas Edison, Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt and J.P Morgan.
For starters, Samuel Morse patented the telegraph that uses Morse code. It was an electronic alphabet that could carry messages. A line was constructed between Baltimore and Washington and the first message, send on May 24, 1844, was “What hath God wrought!” In 1861 the two coast of the United States were linked by telegraph. It help message to be delivered faster witho
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