The technology of Modern America

The shift in technology included bringing new means of transportation of both persons and goods to the whole country through the development of the railroads, with communications improved to draw the country together with the telegraph and then the telephone, with medical advances, and with a variety of technological developments at a more rapid pace to bring to the world new technologies such as the automobile, radio, television, the computer, and important new medical fields.

America was innovative from the beginning, and, in the political realm, this was seen in the creation of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Technological innovation involves both the hardware that is created and the systems developed for that purpose, meaning that it involves the reorganizat

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ng. The problems associated with employee relations and this new entity, Big Business, also started with the railroads before being repeated again and again with other large-scale enterprises. Alfred D. Chandler accepts readily that the railroads brought about economic change in the American landscape and that they did this through a technological transformation of transportation and communication beginning in the 1830s and continuing through the rest of the century. He notes that this new business brought about a profound alteration in the existing patterns of American agriculture, industry, and commerce: Besides stimulating national production and income, the new forms of transportation, particularly the railroad, helped to create new economic methods and institutions that were essential in guiding and shaping the American drive to industrialism (Chandler 3). The railroad made transportation and communication less costly than they had ever been, and the telegraph which accompanied the growing railroad meant almost instantaneous communication to nearly every part of the nation. Chandler argues that the railroad was America's first big business and created new patterns of economic and business activity and new institut
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