Innovations

     Three innovations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth Centuries were the assembly line, the plane, and the telephone.  These inventions helped the American people to communicate, transport, and manufacture.
     The assembly line helped people to build their products more efficient and easier.  Henry Ford invented the assembly line to make it so he could sell lots of cars in a little amount of time.  In WWII the assembly line helped to manufacture large war equipment.  Lots of company's products go down an assembly line during the production process.  This invention is very useful to many people but so is the plane.

     The wright brothers' invention of the plane made it so people could fly far and fast.  Planes are also used in the war to transport equipment from place to place, transport people, or sneak up on the enemy.  Planes can get LOTS of people from one side of the world to the other!  Orville and Wilbur Wright wanted to prove that they could stay up in the air for long periods of time, and they did!  This innovation helped with transportation.  Like the plane the telephone helped transport, but it also helped with communication.
     Telephones made it so people could talk to relatives, and friends that are far away without having to travel across the country.  Many people allover the world are using a telephone right now.  The telephone was also used in wars to transport messages from place to place.  The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell.  His innovation was demonstrated for the first time at the Centennial exposition.
     These innovations helped shaped America. Manufacturing, transporting, and communicating would not be the same without these brilliant ideas.  Thanks to the four men who invented these things companies can produce more products, people can travel fast and far, and you can talk to a far away friend!