In the world that we live in, there are constant changes happening all the time. The advancement of our society has grown so quickly. These changes changed the world to what it is today. At the turn of the century, through transportation and communications was the world affected in the early nineteen hundreds.

People has the need for faster transportation. In 1769, James Watt, manufactured the first steam engine. The steam engine was the first public transportation that had some speed other than horse drawn carriages. Trains allow citizens to vacation in any part of the country. Eventually, the steam engine changed and became the internal combustion engine. Railways were built across the world, connecting the north to the south, the east to the west. Railways were built for quick transportation from one side of the country to the other. These were vital during war times when guns, food, ammo, and soldiers had to be shipped from one side of the country to the other in mass amounts.

Finally Cars began to spring up. Automobiles just needed the occasional oil change as opposed to a horse that needed proper living conditions and food. Henry Ford was born July 30, 1863, he was the first of six children. He grew up on a farm in what is today Dearborn, Michigan. In 1893 Henry Ford built his first car, but it took a long time because it had 5000 parts In the early 20t h century Mr. Henry Ford became famous and rich due to the creation of the Ford Model T. Henry Ford revolutionised mass production by the innovation of the belt line. Which increased production speed and lowered prices. The first Ford Motor Company plant was situated in Windsor, Ontario. Henry Ford made much money, but also gave to the Canadian economy by helping others make money. With automobiles around roads and gas stations needed to be built. This did wonders for the Canadian economy, and affected many people.

People had been dreaming about flying for years, but no one could successfully get a craft off the ground. Not until the nineteen hundreds however, would anyone succeed in piloting anything heavier than air. Many believed that such a thing could not be done, that it was impossible. Later, that same year, two brothers proved his theory wrong. Orville and Wilbur Wright owned a bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio. For years, they were tinkering with what they called "whooper flying machine". In December 1903, using the plains in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, as a testing ground, they succeeded in flying their small craft on a series of wobbly flights, the longest lasting 59 seconds and covering 852 feet. It was the world's first flight with machine that was heavier than air, and quite and accomplishment fore the people of its time.

Before such inventions as the telephone, and morse code, communicating with people far away from you was much more difficult then today. To get a message to someone ten miles away could take forever. But, when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in Brantford, Ontario in 1875. The lives of Canadians and many people around the world changed forever. The first version of the telephone was noisy and very complicated to use, It took Alexander Graham Bell many years for the telephone to be perfected.. In the nineteen-twenties people had to turn a generator crank clockwise , which causes a current to be sent though the line which rings the bell of the party wanted. When the receiver hears the ring you must use the crank in a rapid clockwise motion to inform the receiver that you are through. That seems to be a lot of work just to make a telephone call but it was still less than walking for a few days to talk to someone. Alexander Graham Bell probably invented one of the greatest inventions that the world has ever seen.

Morse code is a system of sending messages that uses short and long sounds combined in different ways to represent letters, numbers, and other characters. A short sound is called a dit; a long sound, a dah. Written code uses dots and dashes to represent dits and dahs. The code is named for the American inventor and painter Samuel F. B. Morse, who patented the telegraph in 1840. Companies used American Morse Code to transmit telegrams by wire. An operator tapped out a message on a telegraph key, a switch that opened and closed an electric circuit. A receiving device at the other end of the circuit made clicking sounds and wrote dots and dashes on a paper tape. This technology was quite essential during the war because it was a way for countries to send messages quickly to their many platoons to give commands.

In today's world , we take these inventors and their inventions for granted all the time. At the turn of the century, these important inventors in transportation and communication affected the world in many ways that changed the world forever. As the world continues to grow, so does technology.