Growth of industrial prosperity

1901 Radio Waves

• At Signal Hill on December 12, 1901, Guglielmo Marconi and his assistant, George Kemp, confirmed the reception of the first transatlantic radio signals. With a telephone receiver and a wire antenna kept aloft by a kite, they heard Morse code for the letter "S" transmitted from Poldhu, Cornwall.

1876 The Telephone

• with the help of Thomas A Watson, Alexander Graham was able to make the first prototype of the telephone and eventually made the telephone.

1880's street cars and subways

• The first electric streetcars, replacing horse-drawn cars on rails, came along in the 1880s. By the early years of the 20th century almost all American cities had electric streetcar systems. The streetcars were smaller and lighter than intercity trains, and they often ran on tracks right down the street instead of on a separate right-of-way.

1903 winged plane

• The plaque reads: "THE ORIGINAL WRIGHT BROTHERS AEROPLANE: The world's first power-driven, heavier-than-air machine in which man made free, controlled and sustained flight, invented and built by Wilbur and Orville Wright flown by them at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina December 17, 1903.

Untitled Slide

• For me the most important invention was the streetcars and subways because honestly where would we be without the transportation we have today.