1880s: People in New England farming communities led a difficult, culturally void existence.
1911: Innovations in transportation made communication easier between the villages and gave residents access to recreational activities in the bigger towns.
Today: Videocassettes, radio, cable television, and the Internet have made the world a global village.
1880s: The era of railroad building made earlier methods of transportation in the United States largely obsolete.
1911: Automobiles (and later buses and trucks) came to exceed the railroad in importance.
Today: Jet travel makes it possible to travel almost anywhere in the world in a day, and supersonic transport reduces long-distance air travel by half.
1880s: Although Thomas Edison patented an incandescent lamp in 1879, most lighting was still by candlelight, oil lamp, or gas jet.
1911: Electricity was increasingly available in homes, which used incandescent.....
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